Samuel Murray Jury

A month ago yesterday we welcomed the last member of our family. Little Samuel Murray Jury on the 5th January 2012 at 9:13am via C-Section weighing 4080g. He was a big boy but not my biggest!. All our boys have family names as their middle names and he is named after my grandpa ( Docking). He came out looking very chubby but so gorgeous. It was by far the most relaxing of all my c-sections. The anethesist was awesome. I didnt even feel the spinal go in....his supervisor on the other hand was not so good and I felt every try he made of trying to get my canular in.....it only took 5 goes and left my hand very sore and bruised.

The boys were very excited to visit and meet their little brother....and very happy to have another boy and not a sister as it means the big boys will get their own rooms when we do some minor renovatng !

unfortunately on day 3 doctors decided that Sam had dropped too much weight. He dropped a third of his weight and was admitted to the special care unit to have a feeding tube inserted. Sam was tube fed and breast fed for 5 days. We then got weekend leave however on returning to the hospital on the monday he had lost more weight so he had to stay.

Sam was also born with a condition called Bilateral Hydronephrosis. Which essentially means water on the kidneys. through out my pregnancy we were monitored very closely not knowing when he may need to be born, and unsure what the outcome would be. we were given so many different scenarios of what may happen. Only 2-3 hours after he was born he had his first renal ultrasound. over the next 3 weeks he endured endless blood test, ultra sounds and invasive test to determine what kidney function and what damage he had. From the test we found out that he had grade 5 bladder reflux on his right kidney, and that kidney only has 25 % fuction, and the left kidney had whats called a PUJ obstruction in his ureter with 75% function in that kidney. The Damage in both kidneys is irreversable. His Surgeon decided from these test that he needed surgery to try stop any further damage to his "good" kidney and on January 25th he had surgery to place a stent in his ureter. this is a stop gap to allow him to grow a little before he has major surgery to repair the ureter in the next few months. That day was certainly not how i expected to be spending my wedding anniversary. Ive never had any of my kids go under a general so I was more then a little worried. Thankfully that Surgery has been successful and 2 days later he was FINALLY discharged from hospital with what felt like half a pharmacy as he has been on antibiotics since birth and will continue to be possibly for the rest of his life and he also has to take sodium ( which taste like liquid playdough).