Letter to Jonathan from Daddy

Dear Angel Son Jonathan Mitchell,

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for coming into our life. You have given us a new understanding of what it means to live, to love and to be a family.

Your life here was short but your are truly loved by so many people. Even though you are not with us physically I know that you are on my shoulder and we will always keep you in our hearts.

Your big brother Grayson will know you, and will love you just as we do. Last night I framed your baby photo to put in the living room and Grayson could not keep giving you kisses. It makes me so happy to know that I was important enough to have been given an Angel baby, and I am so happy that you choose us. Jaimey and I both are so glad that we were able to have you, and to give you all of the love that we could, and that we could give you life. You deserved to be loved and we truly love you.

Both your Mother and I may both have moments of sadness, but neither one of us would ever have asked for it to be any differently. We may not understand, but we both know that your purpose was served in this life, and all that we can do now is continue to love you and remember you for as long as we can live.

I know now that I have a angel on my shoulders for the rest of my days. I will do my best to make you proud;

Proud of the father I am to your brothers and sisters,
Proud of the Husband that I am to your Mommy
and proud of the man that I am in the world.



Good by sweet angel baby, you have touched the hearts of so many and we will forever be grateful for the impact that you have had on our lives.




Love Your Daddy.

Our delivery part 1

The lovely flowers Stephanie brought when she came to visit me on Tuesday.

So everyone already knows that we went in for induction on Tuesday at 7:30 am but what they don't know is how awesome the hospital staff was to us. My perinatologist, Dr. Friedman, had set up an amazing plan for us. He came shortly after I got checked in and set up, and told me the plan of attack was to give me a cervix softening drug called Misoprostol for as long as it was working. It was the slow way but it was the only way to guarantee that my uterus didn't rupture.

I hung out there through every 6 hour doses of Miso, slowly making progress. It was great to hear at another check that I was another 2-4 cm more. (sorry for all the TMI!) Being that this was a Vbac (vaginal birth after Cesarean) I was just elated to be doing it and be progressing much more than with Grayson. (77 hours and only getting to 6 cm and then a C section) I so appreciated that Dr. Friedman wanted to have it slow and steady and no preassure on my body.
My friends Diana and Corie who came to visit. Diana was actually with my ALL Wednesday rubbing my back through contractions and my feet and keeping my legs moving when I'd had my epidural. I love my friends!

After 24 hours of hanging out I was having pretty steady contractions I was in pretty steady pain and finally relented to an epidural. I had been stuck in bed anyway cause the pain was so constant and the only relief I had was a drug that lasts about an hour but after ever subsequent dose it gets less and less. It was not too effective. I was also using boiling hot water packs on my tummy to feel better and those were great. (thank you amazing nursing staff who would bring me those!) Luckily I was at 8 cm dilated so I was already past where I stopped with G. I was feeling great.
Visiting with G when Melissa,Alison, Jesse, his gf Melissa and Grayson came to see us.

Finally I took a nap. Later that afternoon (Wednesday) I was dilated to 10 YEAH! I had finally gotten there. I was elated. I felt like nothing could stop me from having my Vbac now. It was such a high. Now I just wanted to meet my baby and I was getting impatient.

And on that note I am going to bed. I am pooped. I will finish it tomorrow. I was going to just post it all as one tomorrow and a put off tonight but I figured a little more anticipation never hurt anyone. :)

Today

Hi friends, I am back. Thank you so much for of your extended support and love. We have felt your hands on our shoulders guiding us. I just wanted to post a few pictures of Jonathan because I know everyone is awaiting his photos so much. I don't know that I will post many more just because I kind of want to be selfish with him and keep him all to myself. I may change my mind and surprise us all.

Anyway, here is our beautiful angel baby Jonathan Mitchell. He weighed 1 lb 3 oz and was 12 long. He was perfect in every way. He had Zack's feet, which was amazing to us that those features are defined so early in utero. Without further ado, Jonathan Mitchell:


I will post a longer more informative post tomorrow. For now- Goodnight.

Angel Wings

Our dear sweet baby boy got his wings this morning at 5:45 am.

Introducing Jonathan Mitchell Buquet

Born: 10-9-08 at 2:56 am.

Still holding in there as of 5:05

Beautiful little baby boy!

The monkey

Here is the photo of the small blanket for Grayson.

Not quite yet....

So we have had several false alarms all of which had me holding Jaimeys hand, and Jaimey pushing but no go.

I think that Jonathan just does not want to end his stay with Jaimey and I can't say that I would blame him.

We are sure that he will come soon, but as of yet we do know that he is still moving which is a great blessing.

My sister Melissa, her daughter Allie, Grayson, Jesse (Jaimeys Brother) Linda, (Jaimeys mom) Keith, (A family Friend) and our neighbor and friend Jaimey and her new baby are all waiting outside for once Jonathan comes to visit.

Jaimeys great friend Di has been with us all day and has provided such great support to Jaimey. We also have the photographers from Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep with us in the room.

Once Jonathan is born Jaimey and I will take the first few minutes with just Jonathan and Grayson just in case he does not make it longer. After that all of our other guests will get to join us.

If you watch the photo show you will see Jaimey with a blanket. She made it for Jonathan and he will be wrapped in it when I bring Jonathan to the funeral home. Jaimey made another one for Grayson, and Jonathan will "give" Grayson a gift so that Grayson will have something forever from his little brother.

Pretty soon I get to meet my little baby boy. I am the luckiest man on earth right now. I cant wait to meet my little "monkey"

As a side note I got my first I Love You from Grayson tonight in the waiting room. I thought that it was very fitting.

Zack

Here we go!

Ok foalks,

The news that everyone has been waiting for.

We are getting ready to have our sweet little angel baby!

Jaimey was checked about 1 hour ago and was at 8 centimeters. We are not sure how soon we will have him but it will be w/i then next few hours if not sooner.

Obviously I will not be on the blog with updates right away as we are going to want to spend as much time with our little angel as possible, but if he is able to last for a little while I will jump on and post some updates.

Thanks again for all of the kind words and love sent our way. It is truly such a wonderful feeling to have so many people thinking about us and sending us love and prayers.

Posted by an extremely excited father of Grayson Alexander Buquet, Husband of an extremely strong and loving wife Jaimey Buquet, and soon to be father of an Angel Baby Jonathan Mitchell Buquet.

As was quoted by someone else who lost their child.

"Instead of getting feet, God gave our baby wings!"

Please pray for us now that we will get at least a few moments with our child before he is given back to heaven.

Update

We have been receiving tons of E-mails and comments and thank everyone for keeping up and thinking about us.

Jaimey is doing much better now as she finally agreed to allow the Dr's to give her an epidural. She
fought the idea for some time but after 3 different Dr's told her that it would not negatively affect the process she agreed. They told her that after 24 hours of really tough contractions due to the induction anyone would want some pain relief.

We will be getting another "check" at 2 and will have a better idea of how things are progerssing. The Dr's have been worried about pushing things too fast as they dont want to rupture her uterus due to Graysons Birth.

I know that there are many people wanting more info and I apologise that we have not been very accessable. We turned off the hospital phone and Jaimey has not been able to answer calls or emails lately.

I will continue to post updates and will try to get out info as soon as we get it.

Thanks again for all of the love, prayers and support.

We will continue to anxiously await for the moment that we get to meet our son Jonathan Mitchell, and hope that we are only lucky enough to get to have at least a little time with him. If anything you would think that we would get as much time as Jaimey is in labor to spend with our son, but unfortunatly it does not work that way.

Zack

Still Waiting

So for an update...

Jaimey is having some good contractions and has been having them for over 24 hours now. She spent last night having some bad pain and stomach issues.

The Dr.'s say she is making progress, just slower than we hoped.

She is still trying to hold off from getting stronger pain meds but we soon may have to change that as she is in a ton of pain.

She is hanging in there though.

We will update as things change.

Thanks

Zack

Quick Update

Sorry folks for not posting for a while.

Nothing much has happened. We are just waiting for nature (with a little help) to take its course.

We are hopeful that we will have him by tomorrow sometime, but unless things change we wont be having a baby today.

We will post more as things happen, or when I remember.


Zack

Our sweet family!

Our Photo Shoot

Jaimey posted this earlier but if anyone missed it here is a great slide-show from our family photo shoot last week.

Make sure to turn on the volume.

Here is the link.

Today is a day to celebrate life!

Just a quick update.

Jaimey is doing fine, she is having some good contractions and we are hopeful that we will meet Jonathan today.

Just a quick note.

Thanks for all of the well wishes and notes but please refrain for feeling "bad" or "sad" for us today.

Today is our day to celebrate, as we will meet our son (hopefully today) It may not be a long visit but we are so happy and are so excited to meet our son and celebrate his life.

I know that it is hard to know what to say at a time like this but we are very happy that Jonathan has chosen us, and we are going to enjoy every last second that we have with him.

Thanks again for all of the kind words.

When he passes feel free to give us your condolences, but until his last breath we will celebrate his life.



Zack

We love our little Family!

Hospital Here We Come

So we are changing it up today. I (Zack) will take over the blog as Jaimey will be busy doing her most important job of bringing our Angel Baby Jonathan Mitchell into this world.

We arrived at the Hospital at 7:30 this morning. Although the circumstances of our visit are not the best we are getting extra special treatment from the hospital staff.

Grayson is staying with our great friend and neighbor Jamie until my sister Melissa and her daughter Allie get here from California. We are so lucky to have such a great sister coming up to visit. She will be up here for 2 weeks and will be so much help.

Thanks again to everyone for all of your kind words, prayers and love. Thank you to everyone who is traveling today and over the next 2 weeks who are coming such long distances to visit us. Thanks to everyone who has helped us so far. (Cleaning our house, offering to make meals, offering a shoulder to cry on)

We really feel blessed at such a hard time to have so much help and love shown to our family and friends.

Love Zack





Jaimey loves making this face.... I don't like it very much!

1 day until....

I have no words of wisdom today. I am just trying to keep busy and get the house clean for my SIL who is awesome and is helping us out by staying with Grayson while we are in the hospital and then will be here to help out as needed for the next week or so after we get home.

These pics were taken the other day at Lowes. Grayson loves tractors in part because my dad is a heavy equipment mechanic and sends him tractor "toys". (They are still to heavy for G to really play with but he tries. they are more like collectables )

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers that all of you are sending our way. We really appreciate it. And keep 'em coming. I could use the strength today. :)

2 days to go

I can't believe its only two days away that we will go to the hospital to meet our son. I can't believe we have known about his condition for 9 weeks already. What a crazy 9 weeks it has been. Amazingly I feel like I have grown in many ways in that time, I guess there is no way not to.

I love feeling him move around in there. I cherish ever little kick and flip. Its hard to image him not in there anymore and yet not with me either. I know its going to take time to come to terms with that but right now I can't even fathom the thought.

Two more days.

3 days to go

Today we started off our day by attempting to go to the farmers market only to be disappointed by the lack of vendors since its the last week. So after a quick 15 minute walk of that we headed to the much larger and longer going Beaverton Market. I bought some green onions, broccoli, smoked salmon jerky, peaches and orange cherry tomatoes. Then we went home and fed G so I could go to Costco while he napped.
After he woke up we decided to go to Out of this World Pizza. They are a huge warehouse with a big ceiling tall climbing gym and a few inflatables for the kids to enjoy. He had such a good time riding the plasma cars and playing on the over sized blocks.

Here is a few pics of him holding his own on the plasma cars with all the big kids. He was the littlest by far. But he has one at home so he knows how to ride it. They go so much nicer on the OoTWP floor though. :) I think we are going make a track in our garage for him like they have.



There are some people in our life who are acting very, very selfishly and to those people I say "It is SO not about you!"

4 days until we induce to meet our son

In February my cousin lost his 8 week old son Koen to SIDS. Shortly thereafter I was contacted by a photographer, Elle Zober, who had seen a bulletin I had put on Myspace.

In addition to the amazing photography she does for weddings and children and such she works for the amazing organization of Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.com. They are a foundation who has photographers around the country associated with them who do bereavement photos for parents who have or are losing their infant. Elle had emailed me to offer this amazing free service to my cousin.

We ended up becoming friends and continuing our relationship. I never had any idea I would need her photography other than just for the fun of it. She eagerly voulunteered to do our photos for Jonathan as soon as she found out about him. She also offered to do a belly session for our family.

We had our photo session on Wednesday and Elle called today to tell my the slide show is up.

NILMDTS is such an amazing organization of photographers and people. And I feel truly blessed to know Elle and to have been touched by her amazing photos.

Here is the link.