JessicaLTate

My son Jacob Ray Hall was born on May 2nd 2008 at 11:13 A.M. He was 8lbs11oz and 22 inches long. He was born with an undiagnosed Left Sided CDH, and was immediately taken to Mass General from Maine by ambulance. He was intubated and had lots of IV's and other tubes leading everywhere. On May 4, 2008 Jacob underwent surgery to repair his hernia. The surgeons found that all of his bowels, his stomach, his liver, his spleen, where all in his chest cavity, and they managed to fix it. Jacob was extubated on May 7th and I got to hold my baby for the first time since he was born. Jacob started eating and had some difficulties so they did an x-ray and determined that he had very bad reflux. So they put him on some medicine. Jacob was sent home on May 19th, and we just had his first check-up with the surgeon. He seems to be doing very well.