Colby - "The Spicy One"

Colby was extremely stubborn starting from the womb. Many labor and delivery scares from bleeding the entire pregnancy, developing a hemorrhage on my placenta, light duty and bed rest. I knew Colby was going to be extremely feisty from the time I started feeling movement. His kicks were painful veryyy early on and nobody believed a baby so small could cause that much pain. Until at 25 weeks and 0 days when I lost my mucus plug, developed severe cramps, and felt the need to push!

When I arrived to labor and delivery and was checked, the fear was heavy on the nurses face when she felt his foot in my cervix and I was dilated. There was no time to try to keep him in, because he was already making his way out. I broke down thinking I was about to lose my sweet boy. He was too little, it’s too early, he won’t survive outside of the womb. But miraculously he did.

He was life flighted to a high level NICU and spent 115 days on many machines, tubes, endured so many pokes and sticks. In the NICU he was labeled “the spicy one” because he constantly tried to escape his isolette. The angels of nurses caring for him adored his determination and feistiness. Colby fought so hard through every obstacle in his way. With all the doubts and specialist telling us he will likely have life long disabilities and struggles, Colby, since day 1, showed them they didn’t know who they were messing with!

On day 115, Colby came home from the NICU without oxygen assistance or feeding assistance, he battled ROP and BPD but today is clear of ROP with perfectly healthy eyes. He still has signs of BPD but that takes time to grow out of, since he was on a ventilator for so long.

Colby is strong, determined and FEISTY.

You can’t tell these NICU babies NOTHING!
NICU Mama, Brooklynn