Archive for the 'Faith' Category
- Our Beautiful Home Birth of Isabela Elyse
I’ll start out by publishing what I wrote 5 weeks ago about our decision to pursue a home birth: Our Prenatal Home Visit Some couples decide to keep the sex of their babies a surprise or “secret” from others – and some, even from themselves. Others (as we did with Josiah) choose not to share [...]
- Pregnancy: 29 Weeks
I’m definitely feeling very pregnant now! New discomforts and it’s very challenging to bend over – which, with a 3-year-old who leaves toys, clothes, food, etc. on the floor and needs help getting socks and shoes on – happens a lot! But I love this stage! Isabela moves A LOT! Especially at night once Josiah [...]
- David
We were able to see Jesús, Rachel and David briefly on Thursday. As you can read here in Jonah’s post of a few days ago, he left the hospital on May 5. They came by the office between visits to two different doctors at the hospital where he had been admitted (across the street from [...]
- Josiah’s Prayers
We’ve been praying almost 3 months now for Baby David, and Josiah has learned that when someone is sick or hurt we pray that Jesus will heal them. This morning his babysitter called to say she wasn’t able to come today because she had just had an infected tooth pulled and was still in a [...]
- A bit more time!
Oh how I have neglected my blog/journal, and yet all the while have craved the time and opportunity I needed to document the meaningful and notable events of our lives! Our days have been full and busy, productive and exhausting. . . caring for Josiah, housework, community responsibilities and maintaining relationships keep us occupied enough; [...]
- David – April 10 and 14
April 10: “Breathing is much better today. They are concerned because it looks like he’s regressed neurologically because of this infection, to the point that he doesn’t need sedation to be intubated. But some people seem to think is only temporarily. The isolated the germ today so they know it’s a ICU bacteria. The theory [...]
- David – April 9 – Pray Hard!!
Ok, this is a bit like a roller coster… Today he’s having a hard time breathing. We were actually told “if he makes it out of this one” like 5 times. The liquid in his lungs is making it difficult for him to breath even despite the machine. And there’s nothing else they can do [...]
- David – April 6
Davy is having 65ml of his enriched breastmilk now.
- David – April 1
So Davy is up to 60ml now. They are mixing Rachel’s milk with Human Milk fortifier to increase the number of calories and be able to take off the IV so we can interact with him more. Once that happens in the next few days we’ll go with him to the gym at the Hospital [...]
- David Update – March 28
Rach continued with the extended visits today. They had a better day today. No scary moments. The head doctor said that he personally was gonna attempt feeding the baby with a spoon when he’s moved into the other room and he’s off the IV, and that he’s hopeful the baby can swallow even if he [...]
- David Update – March 27
Well today Rachel was allowed to come in at 12, 3pm and 6 pm + our regular visiting time of 1:30 and 4:30pm. I wasn’t allowed to come in since only 1 parent at a tie is allowed in at the same time into the ICU to help with feeding and so forth. So Rachel [...]
- David Update – March 24
OK so we are doing 50ml today although he’s not digesting it all. Tomorrow they’ll try to move him to the other room where we can visit more often and help feed him and work on suction and swallowing. IV is still in there but first we need to get takes to go up to [...]
- David: March 5
“First the better news:
- David: March 3
“He’s food intake continues intermittent.
- David: Sunday March 2
“This afternoon he had a slight fever apparently and his heart rate was all the way up to 210bpm (it’s usually around 170-180) they were gonna draw some blood when we left to look for infections. Eating remains irregular so far. Breathing is great. Jesus”
- Latest Davy update – Feb 27 & 28
Thursday: “Ok what a long day!
- David Update – Feb 26
“Today they’ve completely removed the oxygen away. He’s breathing completely on his own, hurray!!!. He digested a little bit of the 5ml they gave him this morning. And not much more to tell really today that we can see with our eyes. Jesus”
- David Update – Monday Feb 25
From Jesús this afternoon:
- Davy Repetto: Feb 22 update
Just received from Jesús:
- Baby David – February 20
I just received this email from Jesús with the latest update on David: “He’s breathing better today, [the respirator] is back to minimum help. He ‘s digesting the milk some times better some times worse, but that’s normal. We are starting to bring breast milk this pm. His body movements are slow for now but [...]
- Another update on David
We were able to spend a couple of hours with Jesús and Rachel on Thursday. They were in good spirits and doing well considering the circumstances. David continues to be intubated, but was breathing more deeply on his own. The doctors have also started weening him off the anticonvulsants, which he has tolerated well so [...]
- Please pray for baby David
Our friends Jesús and Rachel and daughter Tiffany (those who have the house near the beach where we stayed a few weeks last summer) had their second child yesterday, a baby boy. We went to visit them yesterday and all were doing well until early this morning when baby David stopped breathing while in his [...]
- Josiah’s prayers
Every night we have the same bedtime ritual with Josiah. Samuel helps him brush his teeth and wash up, then we get him into his pajamas and Samuel reads him a story. Then Josiah calls for me and we say prayers together. We always start with the question “What should we thank Jesus for today?” [...]