Stephen James Patton

It has been about a month since i posted anything. Since then my son Stephen James Patton was born. He was born on January 25, 2012. He weighed in at 6 lbs 12 oz and was 20.5 inches long. He was born via C section at 8:29 pm. It was both traumatic for both him and I. i ended up getting a fever while i was in labor. Doctors are sure why i had one but i did. They got the fever down for having me push. I pushed for 3 hours with no progression. At that point i was in the hospital for 18 hours. They gave me a choice vacuum or c-section. Come to find out later that was a good decision that i had made. Found out that his head was at an angle and lodged in the birth canal and he was face up. If you have ever been through that then you know the kind of pain that i was in.  When he came out he wasn't breathing plus he had swelling on his brain and his blood gas wasn't where the doctors thought it should be. He has had an infection. So they transferred him to The University of Iowa to see if that would make him any better. At this point he has been in Iowa city for a week. It has been really hard on me these last few days but i am dealing with it on a day to day basis. Doctors in Burlington believe that he was really late other than the almost week that he was late. my son is the highlight of my days at this point. I love being able to be up here to go see him when i want to. I love being able to just watch him sleep even if it is boring. In rounds this morning the doctors said that as long as his labs stay negative like they have been then he should be able to go home tomorrow. 


On December 28 2011, Stephen's father, Jeremy Patton proposed and of course I said yes. He has been there for me so much in the last 10 months. I truly don't know what i would do without him. I know it was hard for him to see me in so much pain the day i had our son but it has also been hard for him to see me in such pain the following days since. I am truly grateful for him and all that he has done for me and our son. I love him and can't  wait to spend the rest of my life with him.

i just realized that it has been a long time since i have blogged. Just to catch some of you out there on what has been going on with me. Currently i am 37 weeks pregnant. my little one is due January 19, 2012. I am super excited and ready for the little one to be here. i do know the gender of my little one but am choosing not to post it online. i also no longer live in MP but instead i live in Donnellson. I love the house that i live in. i guess my next update will be around the time that the baby is born. Peace Love and joy to you all in the coming year.

My Grandma

I thought that I would give a quick update as to what has been happening lately. This past Thursday my grandmother was admitted at noon to the hospital. She had been having chest pains all day. At the hospital here in Mt. pleasant they found that she had fluid around her heart. At 8 pm that night they sent her to Iowa City, where they discovered that she has congestive heart failure. She is on oxygen. She was released today around 2:30 pm. Her left ventricle is operating at 30%. She is so bad that she can barely lift her arms. My uncles who live in New York are coming here tomorrow and they are leaving on Thursday. I have this really bad feeling that something is going to happen in the next couple of weeks. This hurts worse than losing my grandfather cause I wasn't prepared for that when it happened but this scares me because I know what is going on and I don't know that I like that. A friend of mine asked me if I have gone to see my grandmother and I don’t know that I can visit her because it hurts too much. My friend offered to go with me but I don’t think that that will do me any good as I know that I probably will be in tears the entire time that I am there. I know that I should cherish every day that I have with her but how can you do that when she can talk that long without getting tired and I don’t know that I can see her on oxygen. I remember what it was like seeing Laura hooked to all those machines when she was little but this is different this is my grandma. I guess what I am asking of you is to pray for my family and my grandma that God will take care of her and my family and see us through this. I am going to try to go with my uncles to see her cause i know that if i don't that i will regret it and i know that i don't want that in my life. So to all those out there please keep my family in your prayers and thoughts.