Chase Stephen Duval

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick (text only since it's taken 10 minutes to get the blog open) update. Chase was born on Friday afternoon at 1:45 via c-section....Kate was doing great and went into labor on her own at 7pm the night before we were supposed to be induced...but as soon as active labor went into effect his cord just couldn't handle it and his heart rate was plummeting so they did a section.

He weighs in at 4lbs 11 ounces and they have some testing to run on him since that is "small for gestational age" as he was born at 38 weeks and 1 day....they do think it was just a "bad" cord that wasn't perfusing the right amount of blood and that he should thrive on the outside, but there are some things they want to rule out in the meantime. Looks like Kate will be discharged on Tuesday...but will stay with Chase until he is ready to come home as a boarder in the hospital. I'm going home tonight to be with Emmie who we both miss like crazy...and hopefully Chase can come home soon. He's in the special care nursery having some trouble with his blood sugar so they have a glucose IV in to regulate that but they're trying to wean him off of it....hard to maintain your body temp and you sugar levels when you have 0% body fat to work with! I'm sure Kate will give you the whole story and I promise pictures as soon as we have a better internet connection!