OK, so I'm sure everybody who looks at this blog already knows we had our baby. He was born August 15 at 10:45 pm. It was a fast and furious labor that ended with a beautiful baby boy being born at home (yes-on purpose!). He was born in water, which was a new experience for me. He was a little stinker and didn't breathe right away, but it only took him a little over a minute. It has been an adventure already, as we spent a day in the hospital due to bradycardia (medispeak for slow heart rate). His heart checked out fine, though. He has been on supplemental oxygen ever since because his pulse ox kept dropping. That basically means that his oxygen saturation levels are lower than we want them to be. The doc assured me that it is very normal here in Colorado due to our elevation. Combine that with his fast birth (more fluid left in his lungs) and his intermittent breathing pattern (normal for babies, they just have to outgrow it) and it means that he just needed a little help for a while. I think it scares people when they first see it, so I just assure them that he is fine and they get over it.
About an hour after birth. Isn't it amazing and wonderful that we are in our own bed?
Cute little squishy newborn face.
Poor Jackson. He is hooked up to oxygen, heart monitors, IV fluids, and a pulse oximeter. There were so many tubes and wires coming off him. Makes me want to cry. They strapped his IV arm to a board so he couldn't bend it. It looked so uncomfortable. He was less than 48 hours old.
Arrgh! I be a pirate! The first few days, Jackson wasn't big on opening his eyes. He would open just the one, and usually decide it wasn't worth the effort and close it again.
Wow, two eye open! Good job, buddy.
One week old!
Every military baby has to have some camo!
