Welcome to Maximilian's blog. We're hoping to use this as a way to best communicate what's happening with Maximilian. Comments and questions can be left here as well and we'll gladly answer anything we can.
So far, Max's story is as follows.
He was born on June 4th, 2010 at 2:46am. He weighed 1lb11oz (760g) and was 12.5 inches (31.75cm) long. Obviously, he was quite early. His original due date was September 10th. I guess that, unlike both his mother and father, Maximilian wanted to be early for everything.
The first day started off a bit hairy. Brienne had been in labour, off and on, from Wednesday the 2nd of June. She was tired and sore and doing her best to keep Max from being born so early. Unfortunately, despite her ridiculously valiant efforts, Max needed out and the staff performed an emergency C-Section on her. He was born bruised and in a state requiring immediate resuscitation. Happily, the staff did a wonderful job with his resuscitation and he was then placed in an incubator at the St. Boniface NICU.
Rafael was the first to see him. Maximilian was a tiny little thing, and was the colour of a bruised tomato. He was a mottled, purple and red wee little baby. He looked well proportioned, but with little body fat. The next 14 weeks were to be the fattening weeks in utero. But the news of Max's general health was good. He was by no means out of harm's way, but he was very much in a state of being able to handle the work he had to do over the next many weeks. After a bit of recovery time, the hospital staff brought Brienne, in her mobile hospital bed to see the little guy. Rafael admits that this was a very beautiful time for the new family unit.
This blog will do its best to express his journey as he goes from a wee little premature baby to an NICU graduate and beyond.
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