Recap...

I've decided to start a this blog site to let everyone know what is going on in the life of the Nardello's. As many of you know, things have been very difficult for us for quite a while now. I won't write a long recap, but to summarize things - here we go... June 16th Jimmy and I went in for a routine prenatal visit. We weren't expecting anything unusual...boy were we wrong. My doctor did a pelvic exam and determined right away that I was leaking amniotic fluid. That was not good news because it pretty much meant that one of the two twins water had broken prematurely...WAY prematurely. I was only 24 weeks along at the time. The next 22 days were very stressful. I was on complete bed rest at the hospital and was monitored around the clock. The hardest part of the entire bed rest experience was not being able to do the normal day to day things with Cameryn. But, I knew the longer the boys stayed in my tummy the better chance they would have at survival. On July 10th (just shy of 28 weeks gestation - full term is 40 weeks) I started hemorrhaging and my doctor determined that I needed to go immediately for an emergency c-section. There was some concern of twin A's placenta separating from the womb. There was no time for an epidural so I had to go under general anaesthesia and I was asleep for the whole delivery. At 2:21 pm my beautiful boys were born. Jameson Luke (Baby A - whose water had broken so early) was born first followed immediately by Reid Morgan. Both babies weighed exactly 2 pounds, 5 oz and appeared at first to be healthy. Both boys were rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The devastating news came about 4 hours later. Jameson's lungs never developed past 24 weeks (when his water broke). He was on a ventilator, but was unable to breathe on his own. His oxygen level was only at 20% (should be 90%+), so brain damage was inevitable. He was also in a lot of pain and was suffering. After consulting with his doctor, we made the impossibly hard decision to take him off life support. I did get a chance to hold him and sing to him. Once he came off of life support he died within 10 minutes. As I stated before, this was just a recap of the events leading up to Reid's progress in the NICU. My posts from here out will detail his day to day progress for those interested.