Prayers for our family

Life for Breckin continues to be stressful as he is still in the NICU. He's had a day of ups and downs and so have Mom and Dad. His sugar level has gone up, which is good, then down, then up, then down. Right now his sugars are up, but they also increased his Sugar IV as well. We hope it will continue to stay up and they can start to take him off of the IV in the next day or two.

His apneic epsiodes, (which is when he holds his breath), come and go. He seems to do it more when we are holding him, which makes it hard on us. The nurses tell us all babies do it, just not all babies are on monitors so that we know they do it. Nor is it as bad as his have been. It still is tough to hear this machine beeping at you, seeing the oxygen level drop, and not getting any relief. Finally he takes a breath and he starts to breath again. The good thing is that his heart rate is not dropping. We're not sure why he is doing it, but at this time it isn't a major concern. But to us, it is a big drain on emotions.

He has had a roller coaster of 30 hours or so, once you consider the contractions he was experiencing in utero. It has also been a roller coaster for us. We know that he has this whole life outside the uterus thing to figure out. We have to figure him out, and he'll be ok in several days. It's just hard not to be able to hold our son when we want. It aches to see other mom and dads walking their babies down the hall.

Brooke is doing ok for the most part. She is pretty sore from pushing out a 9 1/2 pound kid. He was coming out face up, which is opposite from what we like. That made the pushing harder. She pushed like a champ, but is in quite a bit of pain.

We ask for your prayers for Breckin that God will help to strengthen him and to protect him. For the doctors and nurses that they will have the knowledge to help Breckin get better. And for Brooke and I, that we will have patience and give our worries, concerns, and fears up to God.