Paxton Asher Black

Paxton Black was born on April 7th at 12:11 am weighing 6 lbs 0.9 ounces. He urinated twice within 30 minutes so he lost a little weight that probably took him into the 5 lb range. I was able to hold him for about a minute while Todd cut the cord then they took him to the nursery because he was being "grunty". He is in an incubator now and on oxygen. They are monitoring his heart rate, oxygen intake, and respiration count. They also started him on an IV since he has not had the energy to eat as he just gets too tired from breathing so hard. We have not been able to hold him, but the nurse today was nice and would let us feed him and burp him through the incubator. He looks like he is getting better every hour. We are just waiting for his respiration count to go down to a normal range then they will start weaning him off the oxygen. They are hoping he will be able to go home by Saturday, but we are hoping for sooner. This morning they did get him off of the oxygen so it has been about 7 hours since he has had to be on oxygen and they say he is still doing pretty good. They are thinking of getting him into a crib by this afternoon sometime. Todd and I were able to hold him while the nurse changed the sheets in the incubator. We were very excited since it was Todd's first time to hold him and my second. Last night he weighed in at 5 lbs 12 oz. They turned his IV down some and are hoping to get him to eat more. He just falls asleep when he starts eating. He is getting even cuter now and we can't wait til he's out of there! We both love him so much already and can't wait until we are able to hold him and kiss him and have him at our home.