Grant Has Arrived!

Praise the Lord Grant Martin has arrived.

Jennifer and Grant are doing great and are both healthy.

Sorry I haven’t updated the weblog in a while but we have been in the hospital. On the morning of July 26th, Jenn’s doctors had decided that they would take the baby after week 36. Well, Grant did not participate. Jenn went into active labor around 6pm that same day and they had to do an emergency c-section.

They were concerned about Jenn’s heart so they wanted to put a catheter in her heart to measure pressures along with an IV into her artery. She had to have this done without any anesthesia and all the doctors were amazed how brave and strong she was. To make matters worse, after all the work to get that thing in her heart, it would not work so it was all for nothing.

Young Grant Martin Blackwell was born at 9:14pm on Monday, July 26th. He weighed 5lbs 7oz. and was 17 ½ inches long. There was a scare at first because he had to be helped get his breathing started because he got some of mom’s anesthesia before being born, but he is breathing on his own and doing great now. He was born six weeks early so he is still having some difficulty maintaining his temperature so he has to stay in an incubator but there is hope that he will come home this Sunday along with Mom.

Jenn is doing great and is in good spirits and will be coming home no later than this Sunday.

Thanks for all your prayers!

See some early pics HERE!

Daddy Mark