I was born on August 28, 2001 at 7:06 pm.  I was a month early because my mommy had something called toxemia and I didn't seem to be getting big enough anyway.  My mommy tried to have me naturally but, I didn't like contractions to much so the doctors performed an emergency C-section on my mommy and got me out.  I weighed 3 lbs 5 oz and was 16 3/4 inches long.  Boy-they weren't kidding when they said I was small!

I was pretty sick when I got here.  I wasn't breathing and the doctors had to help me right away.  I also was very tight with a whole lot of fluid (this must have come from mommy's toxemia) and had apgar scores of 1 (at 1 minute), 4 (at 5 minutes), and 6 (at 10 minutes).  I didn't even get to really see mommy and daddy because the doctors took me right then to the NICU so they could check me out and make sure I was breathing ok.

The doctors looked me over and found out I had a cleft palate and a clubfoot.  They also thought I might have a syndrome so they drew a bunch of blood for tests.  I really didn't care for that too much!

After three different chromosome tests the doctors found out that I had perfectly normal chromosomes and no syndrome.  This made my mommy and daddy very happy!  I had an MRI at around 3 weeks old and the doctors did find out that I have something called partial agenesis of the corpus callosum (P-ACC).  The geneticist told mommy and daddy to not worry to much because it is very mild and only time would tell what would happen.  They didn't care anyway-they just wanted to take me home!

I finally got to come home on September 28, 2001 weighing 4 lbs 7 oz.  Mommy and daddy and all my family was very happy and I finally got to see my new house and begin my life.