Meet Keegan

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• 10.14.19

Keegan’s story, as told by his mom Sheena: “Keegan was due on Oct. 24, 2015. On Oct. 11 my husband, Brett, was heading out for one last day of golf while I had a day with my oldest son. Before Brett left, I told him I did not feel good. He joked that I could not go into labor. He left and I started to get ready to spend the day with my oldest. That’s when the contractions started and they started fast. The whole time I was distracted by the pain that I called Brett to come home and I called the hospital. I had told the nurse that I was having active contractions and that I had not felt Keegan move that morning. Keegan was a very active child so it was very unlikely for him not to give me a good kick in the ribs about every 30 minutes. I was told if Brett could not make it home in 10 minutes to call an ambulance. We were able to get to the hospital by 11 am and I was dilated at a 6. I was rushed into the delivery room where told that his heart rate was “tacky.” I had no idea what that meant and I was in so much pain that I could not focus on trying to understand what it meant. Keegan was born at 1:02 p.m. on Oct. 11. When he was born there were no crying and immediately the doctor told us that he had an angel watching over him. He thankfully was breathing, but he was having a very hard time. He had tied a tight knot in his cord, he swallowed the meconium, and he had pneumonia (later determined).