Little Conner Nathan Gilbert was born Friday Febuary 20th at 4:11 A.M. he weighed in at 7 pounds and 12 ounces and 20 inches long with a full head of blond hair. We went into the hospital Thursday night and were induced at 8:20 P.M. and after 8 hours of labor which is actually pretty fast for a first time birth, little Conner came out to play. Unfortunitly about an hour after he was born he turned purple and the nurses whisked him away to the NICU. He was born with a complication that I do not remember what it is called and I couldent even pronounce it anyway. But it is fairly common and goes away in two to three days. What it does is makes his lungs so they can't absorb enough oxygen so his little body was becoming oxygen depleted. So they had him on oxygen for about a day and a half until he could sustain himself on room oxygen. He has been without his little breating hood for a little over a day now and is doing great they are still keeping him in the NICU to observe him and do tests, they did bring him into our room this morning for about an hour and a half to try and feed him which was difficult since all he wanted to do was sleep. We have learned breast feeding is actually pretty difficult. Things are looking on the up and we hope we will be able to bring him home tonight.
Here he is just minuets old.
This is when he was scaled off alot like a big fish.
This is where he has spent the past couple of days hooked up to 5 monitors and his little right foot has an I.V. in it to feed him since we werent aloud to until he could breath.
Thats his little breathing hood and of course he is asleep, I have only seen him awake twice so far.
This was taken this morning when they brought him to us to feed. 
9 comments:
Congrats guys!! He looks like a cutie!! Hopefully you can take himhome soon!
He is so cute! Yay for new babies! Breastfeeding is way harder at first than they ever tell you but it is well worth it and gets much easier.. believe me. If Stephanie needs any help or has any questions she can definitely call me! Good job you guys!
He is adorable! Way to go you two- you make cute kids!
Well congrats! He is a cutie! I hope you get to bring him home soon.
He's sooo adorable. I love him. Gonna come see him again tomorrow morning.
Gonna have to update again and talk about how he is home!!!
Hi Nathan, it's Tiffany Phillips Dutson, I stubbled upon your blog and just wanted to tell you congrats on the baby, he is adorable.
Yes, nursing gets MUCH easier!!! Don't give up Stephanie, you can do it!! :) It is really hard at the beginning though, and hurts, and is not fun. But I promise that when he gets older and is all done with nursing you will miss it. :) Probably hard to believe right now! Good luck you guys are going to be amazing parents, and Connor is just beautiful :) We love you guys!
Yeah that baby Conner is almost ready to come home, and yes yeah for breast feeding, that is what I like most about my babies. Breastfeeding was just them and me. *G*
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