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Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Jack Isaiah Measham
By RickMeasham | February 2, 2008
Yes, the day came, and none too soon.
We’re due on the 15th of February, but Jack decided to come early. What a great way to start life! He’s officially full term from week 37 and he made it five days past that.
Jack was born on January 30th, 2008 at 1526 (3:26pm) at Werribee Mercy Hospital. He weighed 3200g (7.1 pounds) and was 49cm long (19.3 inches). He has 10 finger, 10 toes and everything else you’d expect. Including two proud parents!
While he was born at Werribee Mercy on Wednesday, it’s only today that we’ve arrived home .. from Monash Medical Center.
After Fatima gave birth, they checked all her vitals and she looked fine. But then two hours later an attempt to shower left her faint. Checking her blood pressure revealed she’d dropped down to 80 over 50! Emergency doctors were called for and she was taken first to WMH’s emergency department and then by ambulance to Monash while Jack was left at WMH. In the end it looks like it wasn’t too much to worry about – just blood loss during delivery. Monash topped her up with two units of blood and she’s been apples ever since. Well, almost.
It seems that one of the blood tests that WMH was used to check for an infection. It was split in two (excuse the lack of proper medi-jargon) and checked for cultures. Just one of the samples suggested an infection. The other was clear. Jack is fine. Fatima is fine. But then Monash needed to re-test just to make sure there wasn’t something going on. Which meant another night at Monash. And then the test still wasn’t finished, so she was supposed to be another night there. But we’d all had enough of hospitals by this stage (and Monash isn’t the nicest of Hospitals despite excellent medical care and fantastic staff) so we begged and they let us come home today. We have to phone tomorrow just to make sure she’s OK. And we have to go rushing back there if we notice anything at all. But it all looks good to me.
During the whole saga we’ve got a few people we need to thank:
- Christina, who was Fatima’s birth partner (I was there, but I have a really weak stomach so I wanted someone else there!)
- Jacqui, who came running when Fatima was taken into emergency.
- Mum, who provided me with a bed and a hug each night Fatima was at Monash
- The midwives at WMH, especially those in the Special Care Nursery who looked after Jack the first night Fatima was at Monash
- The midwives at Monash, especially Christine who let Fatima borrow her personal mobile to tell me she was OK and Tiffany who was excellent at helping us in our first couple of days with Jack
Enough jibber jabber already, here’s some photos
Topics: Jack | 2 Comments »
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Congratulations Fatima & Rick! and a big welcome to little Jack Isaiah – such a cute and unique little bundle of joy!
May he bring you much love and laughter (Isaiah means that!) and be a special blessing from the Lord.
February 4th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Hi again! Trust all goes well with little Jack Isaiah and yourselves. Today I realised that I was shortcircuiting yest. when I said his name means laughter. Not so! Isaac means that but Isaiah means Jehovah is Helper or salvation is of the Lord. May you all receive much help from the Lord.
Prayers & blessings!