Where it all began

I guess in order to start a blog, I should give some background information so that people who don't know how we got to where we are, can read up!

My husband and I had been married for 2 years when we found out we were expecting our first baby in January of 2010. We were super excited, and anticipated the arrival of what we expected to be a completely normal newborn. However, when we went to find out the sex of our sweet baby at my 18 week appointment we found out it was a boy, yay!, but also found out there may be some complications. Then at our 24 week ultrasound it was confirmed that our baby was definitely suffering from something, which they termed Aperts syndrome.

Aperts syndrome? Questions raced through our minds, what is this? how did he get it? what can be done? Will he die? Then came the google searching. This was terrifying. All of these kids were deformed and definitely not the perfect combination of myself and my husband. We were devastated, and hurt.

Fortunately there was one website that saved us. It had a listing of all these kids with Aperts syndrome and it helped us realize it wasn't as bad as we had originally thought. Still we were crazy with fear for our unborn child. Even though this syndrome didn't claim lives it still came with a very scary prognosis for two parents who had never even heard of this before.

Needless to say the rest of my pregnancy was filled with stress and anxiety. I questioned God a lot, and at one point felt so depressed I didn't want to get out of bed. For me that was extreme. I just felt like seeing other people and their genetically perfect kids would only make me feel worse, if that was even possible. Paul handled it a little better, at least on the outside.

My due date was September 19th. Cameron Joseph Elliott came five weeks early in a crazy whirlwind birth story. Thus began our journey into our Crazy, awesome new life!