5 months ago today my daughter was born
5 months ago
Five months ago my daughter was born. Five months ago today my life changed like it hadn’t changed before. It’s been a long five months but they’ve felt so short. For the first two months we were in and out of the hospital. Now we’re in and out of doctor visits and cardiology appointments.
Many of you readers may know that my daughter was born with many VSD’s in her heart. After finding that out she was admitted to the hospital for a Pulmonary Artery Banding the banding was successful after two surgeries. Now she’s at home with her parents enjoying her life as a little baby.
I can honestly say she is the best baby ever. It’s my first kid ever and I know kids are born every 10 seconds but I can honestly say I’ve been blessed. After all she’s been through we had expected her to need a lot of care and caution and expected us to treat her differently. It’s been nothing like that.
I’m blessed to have a great relationship with my girlfriend, some day to be wife. I love the little family her and I have, and the extended families we’ve been introduced to. I feel like I’ve handled the situation I’ve been dealt with in a very good manner. I love being a dad and I’m proud of it. Waking up next to my soon to be wife and walking up to the crib where our daughter lays watching her smile at us every morning inspires me to have the best day ever.
4 months
I receive comments from people who read this blog saying that I’m doing a great job as a father and that I’m taking the whole situation and doing something with it that is inspiring to others. All of these comments really make me appreciate what I do even more. I first intended this blog to be for my family, so that one day my daughter can grow old and read this and realize that she has always been loved since day one. These are still my intentions but I also plan on helping others with their problems, making this an informative blog about all aspects in parenting.
I really want to thank the hospital and cardiology team that has dealt with my daughter. I know they are use to seeing such cases as hers, but I really just want to take a minute and thank them from the bottom of my heart. They’ve made and done everything possible to maintain our daughter healthy and we reall appreciate that to the fullest.
Children’s Memorial Hospital – Thank you for all that you’ve done.
I love you babe, I’m glad we decided on what was best for her.
- Will.
Parenting is hard, no matter your age. But parenting a child with medical issues (and remaining positive despite them) takes a special kind of person. Congratulations to both you and your girlfriend ~ you have a beautiful daughter!
U are great. Being a responsible teen dad is not easy especially with so much things that you could have enjoy doing as a teenager but you willingly take up the responsibility to be a dad instead. I believe you will bring your daughter up to be someone great too!
Hi… I just found your site. Your daughter is absolutely adorable! I’m the mother of 2 girls, 4 yrs old and 5 months old. My oldest was born with a congenital heart defect that required surgery when she was 2 days old. Hang in there! It gets much easier and I personally think that having gone through what we did made my family stronger and more appreciative of each other.
Hi there! Wow, you story is amazing and encouraging. I volunteer with a non-profit orgaization that works with Jr high and High school students on “safe sex” and “descision making” we focus on abstinence, but we are realistic about it as well. I have just started to put together a presentation to give to jr. Highers about teen pregnancy. I wanted to get the guy’s perspective and googled “teen DAD”, this brought me to your blog. You’ve been a huge help getting insight on how this effects not only the mom but also that dad. Thank you! I myself , am a mom to two fabulous kiddos. I was just out of my teens when I had my first child, I was 20 years old. I just have to say thank you for writing this blog, My prayers are with you daughter and you and your GF. As a fellow chicago-er, Stay warm and hopfully you’re not barried up to your eyeballs in snow too!