Nicholas Domenic DeLuca is Here!

My little boy Nicholas Domenic DeLuca was born yesterday, 8/17/11 at 6:06 pm. He weighed in at 7 pounds 3 oz, which was pretty big considering he was a whole month early.  Little Nicky has had a very difficult first day of life. His lungs are a little underdeveloped and he was put in a respirator shortly after this picture was taken. It breaks my heart so much to see him hooked up to all those machines, and I just couldn't post a picture of him that way. I will hopefully post many more pictures once he is better. In addition to the breathing problems, he was also born in what they called a "facial presentation", which caused a lot of bruising. He looks like someone punched him in the face and they said it is probably very tender. They tried to take care of him at my local hospital, but they just don't have the necessary staff or equipment. So he was transported by ambulance  to a NICU in Camden, NJ, which is about two hours from my house. My doctor was very understanding and released me from the hospital this morning, even though it was only about 14 hours after giving birth, so I could go be with him.  We just got back home, and I wanted to give my readers an update and ask that you send my little boy prayers and healing energy for a speedy recovery.  I will be going up to the hospital to see him every day until he gets home, so obviously, blog posts will slow down for a while. It might be a few days or it might be few weeks. But I may still post a few things here and there at night, just to try to keep myself from going insane being apart from him. I'm sure I won't spend too much time sleeping.  If you email me for any reason and I don't reply right away, please be patient. I will do the best I can. I have 2000 emails after being gone only 24 hours so it may take me some time to catch up.