The Wanderlust Chronicles: Welcome Griffin Everett Wells!!

On June 17th, 2010 at 10:42pm, Griffin Everett Wells was born! He weighed in at 7lbs, 15oz and 20in long. We were lucky to have a healthy and managable delivery!! Thanks to a fantastic midwife team of Joanne and Capri, and to all the nurses at Doylestown Hospital who were fantastic and took great care of us!

We had to laugh because Griffin arrived 8 days early, when I was SURE he's be at least a week late. So I took a risk and Steve and I drove down to DC on the Tuesday before he was born so that I could attend some meetings for work at my DC office. Much to my surprise, at 2am that first night, my water broke!! Luckily I wasn't having contractions, so we packed up in a flash and hit the road back to Pennsylvania, making record time between DC and Philly, making it home still in time for an early morning nap before heading to the hospital to get things started! Guess Griffin's early arrival was my first lesson that I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to parenting!

38+ weeks pregnant, at a hotel in DC, the day my water broke- 2am that night!

Griffin ended up staying at the hospital in the NICU until Wednesday, June 23rd, because of a low platelet count. The neonatologists have determined that we have Iso-immune thrombo cytopena, which means that my platelet type doesn't match Griffin's platelet type, and although he's totally healthy, his platelet count was low because of antibodies that he got from me when he was born. In a few weeks to a few months, his body will take over and expel the antibodies and be fine, but in the meantime they had to give him an immunoglobulin IV while in the hospital to give his platelets a boost. (I hope I got all this down correctly...!) It worked, and now his count is back up to normal. We've been working closely with a hematologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and will have to go for follow-up check-ups for probably the next couple of months. All of the doctors both at the hospital and at CHOP have been great through this!!