General Discussion & Chat: 8 weeks early, 1 by hczone6

hczone6 wrote:
Well, Allan decided at barely under 31 weeks, he wanted to come into the world...but we had other plans. My wife was put in the hospital a few weeks ago to stop early labor. They held it off for 10 days (she was in the hospital the entire time). As of last Friday, Oct 1, Allan got tired of waiting and let everyone know he wasn't going to be put off any longer. So Friday night (32 weeks), the little goofball finally got his wish when the doctors performed a c section to remove the young lad from his temporary home in mommy's belly.

I'm amazed how well a 8 week premature baby looks (mine anyway) and how well he's doing. He's breathing on his own, eating on his own (breast milk via bottle) and has no unusal problems. He has a slight bit of jaundice, but not bad enough for the doctors to recommend doing anything other than waiting to see if it clears up on it's own...and he sometimes has trouble keeping his body temp up to where it should be, but he seems to be getting that under control. He'll be in the neonatal ICU until the doctors are confident he's ok to take home. From all indications, this will be 2 to 3 weeks.

I snapped a few pictures of him.
http://www.pbase.com/kygarden/allan



This message was edited Oct 6, 2004 8:59 AM