4 Month's

Emmett had his 4 month check up today. He is in the 5% in height and weight and 15% in his head. He now weighs 11lbs. 8oz, and is getting chunky. The Doctor said that he can't believe how well Emmett is doing. He has amazed many. We still can't take him around big groups or other kids, which is really hard and getting very old. But I just love this little guy and I am so thankful that he is here with us.

Closing Emmett's Chest

They kept Emmett's chest open for three days to let the swelling go down. The surgeons came up to Emmett's room in the PICU to close his chest.

Perfect!

September 6th

Monday September 6th, Emmett had open heart surgery at 13 days old. It was a very stressful day for us and our families. It is hard to have your new born baby go into any kind of surgery, let alone heart surgery. I kept saying prays in my heart the whole day that he will be safe and that the surgeon's will know what will help this little guy of mine. They kept his chest open so that the swelling could go down. When we went back to Emmett's room it was very hard for me to see him with all the tubes and that he was swollen and a dusky color. The nurse was telling us about all the tubes and what they do. I didn't like seeing Emmett like this and was having a hard time standing there. I had to leave and go pump, while I was out by my self I just cried thinking of Emmett laying there. I couldn't go back into Emmett's room for awhile. I was filled with so much emotion, of how he looked and that I was feeling bad that I am his mother and I couldn't go in there and be with my little guy, it hurt me so much.

I am so thankful that my parents and Adam's mom was with us this day and was a big help with support and love. I am so thankful for Ken for watching Morgan on this very stressful day. I am so very thankful for priesthood blessings. I know that Emmett is very blessed and that he is being watched over by our Heavenly Father and other angels.

First Time Holding Emmett

The first time I held Emmett was a very emotional day for me. He was born August 24th and I held him September 5th, he was 12 days old. It took three people to put him in my arms with all the things that he was on. I loved looking into my little guys eyes, I just knew that I loved him so much and wanted him to recover and come home to his family. I also was fighting back tears knowing that he was going into open heart surgery the next day.

CICU

What a good looking little guy!

Mom and dad visiting Emmett while in the CICU.

Emmett chilling out with his goggles and his blue lights. He had a little jaundice.

In the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

Emmett Wallace Perry

Emmett was born Tuesday August 24, 2010 at 4:15am. He weighed 6 lbs 4 oz and was 20 inches long. I went into the hospital on Monday at 7:30am to be induced. They started the inducing process, after a few hours I had my epidural. It started kicking in and was doing really good at first, and then after awhile it just made my right leg numb and nothing else. So after 20 hours of labor and 20 minutes of pushing, Emmett was born. Because of Emmett's heart condition, I delivered at the University of Utah Hospital so that Emmett could be taken to Primary Children's Medical Center. When he was born they passed him through a window to the NICU. I didn't get to see him until I was ready to go to my room, and was still not able to hold him. After they took care of him in the NICU, the Life Flight transport team brought Emmett to my room before they walked him over to Primary's. It was very hard to see him go and not be able to hold him.

Ready to be transferred to Primary Children's Hospital.

3D Ultra Sound

My mom asked if we would like to get a 3D ultra sound done. I thought that it was no big deal, since we didn't do it when I was pregnant with our daughter. My mom told me that it would be fun to have and that my mom and dad would love to do it for us. Well we thought that it would be fun to take Morgan our daughter and she could see her little brother on the screen.

Thursday July 1st 2010, I will never forget this night. While driving down to Payson for the ultra sound, I kept feeling nervous and thought that it was weird that I would get nervous for just a fun 3D ultra sound. During the ultra sound Morgan would ask if that was her brother and said that he was cute and looked like a puppy, after a while during the ultra sound Morgan turns to her dad and said: "Baby brother is sick." We didn't think anything of it and just thought that she was thinking that because we were in a doctors office. We told her that he was fine.

Right after Morgan saying that baby brother is sick, then the ultra sound tech said that usually during 3D ultra sounds that he normally doesn't look at the organs but just wanted to take a look and see how things were going. The last place he checked was our little guys heart. He stopped and looked at me and said: "I normally wouldn't say this to my normal patients, but since we are family and I think that you should know this now. I have been doing this for 20 plus years and your babies heart does not look normal." My heart just sunk, I thought to myself; "What went wrong, why is this happening." I couldn't even say anything.

When we got done with our appointment it was too late to call my OB and the next day was his day off. The next day I called my OB's office, and told the on call doctors nurse about the 3D ultra sound. She referred me to Maternal-Fetal Medicine doctor that day.

Our Tough Little Guy

Our cute little guy!