Baby Dale is Cowboying Up This Weekend

In my family we have a saying that can pretty much help get you through anything in life. We call it cowboying up. Simply put you put all your everything into what needs to be done to get get you where you are going.

That being said, I wanted to give an update on baby Dale. We ran into some serious complications but we will come through.

Here is what we know so far:

Dale went into surgery around 8am on Friday August 5th to correct a twisted bowel. They told us that this was a result of how his intestines formed inside. The surgeon untwisted his intestine in three places and decided they would give him the weekend to recover and try to revitalize the areas that were compromised. Dale will have a second surgery on Monday. The doctors told us they will have to remove some of his intestine but won't know how much until they go in. So we will talk with the surgeon before he goes in and after he comes out to see how much was removed. Then it will be a wait and see game to see how he recovers and takes to feedings. We know he will be in the NICU for at least 3 or 4 weeks. They told us that it may be longer depending on how much of his intestine they remove.


For now we are trying to just get through each day one foot in front of the other. I am focusing on healing from the c-section and getting mentally strong. At this point the second of the two is a bit tough but I am going to prevail as I want to be strong for my baby. He will eventually come home healthy and life will straighten out.

Baby Dale is taking the weekend to cowboy up and recover as much as he can so he's strong for the second go round. Good thing he's named after his Grand Papa Dale, who as we all know has spend plenty of time cowboying up in life!!