To all the mums and dads

The usual Instagram cut and paste update is below. But it misses a key event, which I have purposefully left out until now. It’s quite a story which, as you read it, does have a happy ending – for Bex, Steven and Henry.

Henry’s birth wasn’t without stress – I’ll leave out the gory details, but safe to say what with a cesarean, a good deal of pain, a baby with low oxygen levels and a Korean system which briefly presents the baby and then stows them away in ICU for two days, it wasn’t without tears.

Which continued when Henry came home …

… and then a phone call from the hospital. Henry’s blood results showed an anomaly. Again, I’ll leave out the details but what the lad would have if the blood results were confirmed would have been caused by both parents having a defective gene. And the prognosis would lead to two illnesses, both of them life-threatening in infancy and certainly life-limiting.

We had to wait for two days to get Henry retested (during which time we Googled the hell out of everything and made ourselves more miserable, if that were possible). Bex and Steven saw a specialist who was calming, but couldn’t disregard the possibilities.

We then had the longest five day wait … and then the phone call. The retest was all clear. No explanation was given, but we reckon the anomalous blood result was caused by stress at birth.

So … for all those mums and dads out there who have been through the same sort of thing recently and maybe had bad news for their young baby, we, all of us, are with you. So very, very sorry.

Now, back to what we’ve been up to, which should include a whole lot of fretting and no small amount of tears. You can supply your own.

++++++

D + 42