Life as a Wife

Robert Joseph Meredith was born on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 2:26 PM. He weighed 7 pounds, 14 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. He’s a beautiful baby boy and we instantly fell in love.

The doctors quickly found an aortic stenosis, which is essentially a constricting of the valve that lets blood flow out of the heart. Robert is just fine now, but this is something that has to be corrected before it becomes a bigger problem. The procedure they need to do involves threading a tiny balloon into his heart and inflating it to try to open up the valve. If that doesn’t work, they might need to do a open cavity surgery to replace the valve.

The hospitals in Mississippi aren’t fully equipped to perform this more extensive surgery if necessary, so to be safe, Robert has been transferred to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, not Mississippi!) Rashell and I are getting ready to fly up there today to meet him. We expect his surgery to be Monday, but we’re not sure yet.

Since so many people want to know what’s going on and have been praying for us, we have decided to try to use this blog to provide regular updates. So please check back here often to see how he’s doing! We wil also try to post pictures regularly. Until I can get out pictures properly posted on this blog, you can see them on mine here.

Thank you al for your concern and mostly your prayers. We have been overwhelmed by the support and love we have received. It is so incredible to see the outpouring of love for Robert from his new covenant family and we look forward to bringing a beautiful, healthy baby back home soon.