It's because my nephew was born on Monday!!!!!! :-D
His name is Jackson Lucas (Last name will be left out for obvious privacy reasons :-P ), and he was born via emergency c-section at 7:29am Monday morning. He's 43cm long (19"), and was 5lbs 3.3oz, and about 5 weeks premature. If he'd gone full term, one doctor said that he would have been like, 9 pounds and 2 feet long! My sister went into the hospital Sunday night because of her heart condition and some cramping and bleeding. Naturally, they were like 'Hey, lets check out the baby while we're at it.' So they hooked up monitors around her belly and such as well, and kept an eye on him. At about 6am his heart rate dropped from 150 to just 50 :-S So out he came!
We later realized that if my sister hadn't gone in on Sunday night for her heart condition, something totally unrelated to the baby, they wouldn't have caught Jackson's heart rate fluctuations, and we would have lost him. There were tears over that one. :-(
He's such a trooper already though; within his first day, he was breathing on his own, and by yesterday (his 2nd day) he was out of the incubator and in a little bassinet. And by this morning he was already having full feedings. He's still in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), but as soon as he's able to breast feed properly and learns to breathe without swallowing air, he can go home! I reeeeeaaaaaally can't wait for him to get out of the NICU though, because I haven't even met him yet! I've only seen pictures :-( Kids 14+ are allowed into the NICU, but my little sister is only 11, so to be fair I cant go in if she can't go in. I'm dying here, I just want to hold him and cuddle with the little guy! :-)
I'm going to call him My Sweet Babboo.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z80P-zFJ2U
Here you are, I'd like you to meet little Jackson! He's 2 days old here -
This has turned into the best summer :-)
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