Our 1st scare...

Zion came out a healthy baby boy, and it wasn't until he was 5 days old when his newborn blood screening test came back from being shipped to Raleigh(something they do with all babies to look for abnormalities) that we figured out he had MCAD. If we had known in the hospital  and we knew the signs...we would have reacted very different when he had his first episode. He had his circumcision at 3days old he came back from his procedure and went right to the breast just fine. Nurses said it would be normal if he slept a little longer due to the procedure. He did sleep longer than he usually did but to most moms it wouldn't be a big deal. I had tried waking him up to eat because I was having mother intuition that he needed to eat he suckled for probably ten minutes...I felt a little satisfied and let him lay back down. My mother kept reassuring me that he was okay and babies know what they need, which they do. After dinner he started to not even wanting to latch he had such a hard time he became frustrated every time he tried to eat...my night nurses were no help mad I was still recovering from my csection. He would wake up every three hours or so and I'd try to feed him each time, we still had no luck. He soon became lathargic and very sleepy. Most children's bodies could handle going threw this Zion's body started to eat what little stored fats he did have. He soon lost more than 10% of his weight...luckily he was a big baby and he did have storred fats, because from what we know now he could have past away on us. Early that morning the lactation nurse came in and we pumped two small bottles and after those two feelings we had our baby back. From the moment Zion was born he was a fighter, and I know he will keep fighting.