Kody Stephen Jones

Kody Stephen was born Monday @ 1:40 pm. He suprised us weighing 10 lb 2 oz and was 19.75 inches!! We were expecting a nine pound baby but when we saw him we knew he was a lot bigger than Katie who weighed 9 lb 1 oz. No wonder I was so miserable those last few weeks.


When he was born they did have a room full of nurses and doctors in delivery. I think Marc told me there were about six or seven waiting to check him out. They did let Marc bring him to me for just a second. I got to see his face and then they took him off to the NICU. It was 5:30 before Marc as allowed to go see him. They did several tests to see what his heart looked like. While Marc was gone to see Kody Dr. Cottrill came and spoke with me. She did confirm the Interrupted Aortic Arch and the Pulmonary Artery was twice the size it should be. To correct this they need to do surgery to connect the arch together and band the Pulmonary Artery to restrict blood flow. They have set the surgery for Tuesday June 30th. The surgery will last about three to four hours and if all goes well we can come home 5-14 days after surgery. He'll need another surgery 3-6 months later to correct the Pulmonary Artery and to patch the hole in his heart. I finally got the feeling back in my legs and got to go see Kody at 9 pm Monday night.

Katie did get to see Kody when he was in the NICU. The first time he opened his eyes was when he heard her talking. She sung Jesus Loves Me and This Little Light of Mine. She was so excited she wanted to hold and feed him. So far she hasn't asked to many questions. They moved him Wed. evening to PICU and they don't allow children under 12 to visit so she didn't get to come back and see him. Here he has a private room and a nurse who only has one or two patients. We can come back anytime and even stay all night with him.

These are a couple of pictures with his eyes open. He doesn't look like there is any thing wrong with him. His color looks great. The little white tabs with the lines are to monitor his heart. The other lines are coming out of his umbilical cord they are for the IV and to draw blood. This way they don't have to stick him every time they draw blood. We can't pick him up or hold him right now. When we feed him we can only raise his head like the picture above.

The only time that I did get to hold him was on Tuesday in the NICU. The nurse he had that day was really great. She helped me with him and we got to watch his first bath. He doesn't like the bath or getting his diaper changed. Other than that he has been really good. He sleeps most of the time and doesn't fuss much at all. The doctors said from here till Tuesday we are going to keep everything pretty much the same. Right now he's getting to drink 15 cc's of milk. They only let him have 5 cc's at first and gradually worked up to the 15. They don't want him to take to much till after the surgery.

Right now we are going to just hang out and spend as much time with Kody as we can. We've just about kissed his little cheeks off already. He really likes those kisses too most of the time we can get a little smile or that's just Daddy's whiskers tickling him.

This is the sign the nurses made for Kody in NICU. They weigh them in grams and the other babies in the room with him weighed around 770 grams. He weighed 4610 grams and was huge compared to the other babies.

We would like to thank every one for their cards, phone calls, gifts, emails and mostly their prayers. Next week is going to be really tough.

Please keep us in your prayers next week when Kody has surgery and through his recovery.

Marc, Jamie, Katie and Kody Jones