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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Baby's got a boo-boo

Well not a boo-boo perhaps. Brogan's lips have been turning blue at random over the last month. (about 5 times) They will stay blue for about 10 minutes and then turn rosy pink again. He is acting completely normal, continues to play and laugh and scream and do all the normal baby things while this is going on. We took him to the pediatrician to see if she could give us any insight about it. His oxygen intake seems normal (around 99%) from the pulse ox meter and his blood pressure to all his extremities (arms and legs) were normal as well. She said if it happens again to take him to the ER. And also was going to refer him to a pediatric cardiologist to have some other tests done most likely an echocardiogram.

(I wasn't taking this picture for Blogging purposes, I felt like i needed proof his lips were actually turning blue! Its so weird that they will stay that way for 10 minutes and then all the sudden get better! But you can see the new addition to his mouth in this picture a couple weekends ago Feb 13th (Friday the 13th coincidentally) Brogan's first molar came through. It was awful 103 degree fever, croup, cold waking up 7 times in one night... the whole 9 yards! )

So last night right after we got out of the bath, his lips turned blue again, so I got his jammies on, and took him in. Of course as soon as we got there he was acting normal again, just as he had done the other times. But the staff in the ER were very helpful and thought he was so cute (and I might say he did look awfully cute in his little gown) Buddy joked he was just pulling a trick on us to try and stay up past his bedtime. They took his oxygen, and blood pressure, weight, temp, and took some x-rays to see if maybe his heart was enlarged. All checked out normal just as they had at the doctors office. So they called his pediatrician to let her know what was going on, and they let us know that they were going to expedite the pediatric cardiologist appointment so hopefully we can figure out what is going on.





He doesn't seem to be affected by whatever it is though, still our happy little Brogan! Hopefully we'll be able to figure out soon whats causing these mysterious blue lips.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is just crazy! I have never heard of such a thing before. Hopefully all the tests turn out fine. And goodness him in that gown is just adorable!

Sally Michelle said...

I hope you guys figure everything out.

Lilian has been having some problems too, but with her endocrine system. I hope you all figure it out and we do too.

::Introduction::

Although his life was unplanned Brogan has brought so much joy to ours. We found out we were pregnant May 21st, 2007, and what a shock that was. Looking back on that time now, as i look into his big blue eyes, I don't think we ever could have known what happiness he would bring with his arrival. I worked right up until my water broke at 4:40pm on January 15th. My heart was beating so fast as Buddy met me at my house (after i had to call and pull him out of an interview to let him know it was "TIME", he got the phone call he had wanted! Since I was scheduled to have an induction on the Thursday following and we both really wanted it to happen naturally. We got to the hospital between 6 and 6:30 and i was dilated to 5. After I got the epidural around 8:30 -9 I dilated to 10 within the hour, but was so numb that I could not feel my contractions to push. Poor Brogan was stuck there for another 3 hours with his head just trying to come out! We turned down the epidural, and when I could feel enough to push, it only took 1 hour and our baby boy was delivered into this world by his Daddy and Grandma Wood at 1:51 am on January 16th 2008. Grandma R and Aunt Chelsea and Aunt Brooke were also there to share that special moment and capture it with photographs and video. The rest of the family came in shortly after. What an amazing experience this has been...

-Brogan Lee Rivera-
7 lbs 6 oz, 19 3/4th in. 1:51 am 1/16/08