Miss Julia Jane Champoux

If you haven't heard yet, Miss Julia Jane Champoux was born on Thursday morning (May 20th) at 11:44am at 8 pounds and 19 inches - woo hoo!! And I know I might be biased, but she is absolutely a beautiful baby!! (And this pic doesn't even do her justice - no joke.)

However, we need your prayers! After going home yesterday Mark and Monica noticed that Julia seemed to be occasionally screaming and then holding her breath. Eventually it became a real concern and they brought her back to the hospital around 4am this morning.

We're still at the hospital and we've learned that the episodes are in fact seizures. That is a really scary word, however the do NOT think it is epilepsy. Right now there are a lot of possibilities - it could be the result of an infection, it could be because there is some blood around the brain (they used the vacuum on her head just barely to get her out during birth - so not blood on the brain, but like, on the outside - if that makes sense), could be meningitis (sp?).

So anyway, it sounds like whatever it is, it should be fixable. But until they know what it is, they don't know how to fix it just yet. As I'm typing this they are hooking her up for an EEG to monitor her brain activity through an entire sleep cycle (a little over an hour) and then I believe she is going to have a CT scan. After that we should know quite a bit more.

In the mean time, please be praying for not only little Julia Jane, but also for Mark and Monica. I don't know that Monica has slept much more than an hour or so in the last two days and she is, needless to say, emotional. It's hard for all of us to be back in the hospital so soon after losing Mom. Makes it a lot harder to not jump to really scary conclusions.

I'll keep the blog updated, but we can't use phones in the room here so if you want to contact us, texts are best. Thanks for the prayers and I'll keep you in the loop as we get news.