Thanksgiving for Miracles

Keith saved our baby's life last night.
Please read the email I sent out to my family this afternoon......

We went to bed. I fed Liam and Keith put him in his bassinette which was switched over to K's side of the bed for ease of access. The night before had been horrible with K having to get up and down out of bed a million times to get Liam for me. He was fussy and we finally put him down and settled down to sleep around 2 am. All of a sudden Liam started to choke on mucus. Now this happened at the hospital and it was while the nurse was bathing him so we learned how to deal with it. C-section babies can have extra mucus in their lungs they must bring up because it doesn't get squeezed out in the birth canal. So we held him on his tummy with his head to the side and patted his back really hard. But instead of the mucus coming out it went up his nose, his throat shut down and he couldn't breathe! His color changed and his arms were flailing in panic. Keith yelled at me to call 911 and at the fear in his voice I did just that. I was completely hyper ventilating on the phone with the operator and she was so calm. It was absolutely surreal. She dispatched both ambulance and fire rescue immediately. Keith worked on Liam and resorted to putting his mouth over Liam's nose and sucking out the mucus. This seemed to help to he could at least breathe but his breathing was laboured. I stayed on the line with the operator until the guys got to our house which seemed like 10 years. Keith worked on Liam, patting him and thumping his back etc.
I let in Fire Rescue and when they saw Keith (being that he's their co-worker) they were more than shocked. Keith was able to tell them in medical speak what the issue was but by then Liam was drastically improving and the panic was dying down. The ambulance arrived..actually they sent the Advanced Life Support Unit. You won't ever hear me say one bad thing about a paramedic EVER! These guys were incredible. They checked Liam out thoroughly and didn't make us feel dumb for calling them and were just so supportive. We decided against going to the hospital as his vitals were excellent by this time.
They all went home and I collapsed into hysterics. I never realized how much I loved this little baby! I would have gladly died for him.
Anyhow....it was rather difficult to sleep after that. We had adrenalin pumping through our veins. We took Liam to our bed and sleep for about an hour. We are rather scared to leave him alone now for even ONE second. We may just sleep in shifts tonight.....and until he's past this 'newborn' stage. Not sure when we can be assured the mucus is all up. We'll talk to the doctor about it on Friday at our appt.
Could you pray for us as a family? The boys didn't wake up but we told them about it in the morning and it really scared them. We could use a little peace of mind around here. Keith was at the fire hall today talking to the crews and his co-workers as they all saw the report this morning and were so worried about us. We're really relieved it all turned out okay.