Peanut has arrived

Peanut has arrived...Well now known as Matthew James. Our precious little miracle baby. He was born October, 25th 2011 at 2:46am. He was 19 1/4 inches long and weighed 6lbs 11oz. As soon as he arrived they cut the cord and handed him off to the NICU team. They worked on him for about 10 minutes to get him intubated and then off to the NICU they went. Jim got to go along with them. 

He is doing really with all things considered. He was given 100% oxygen right away and by 6:30am he was down to 30%. So he is doing really good for that. They will just keep monitoring him and lowing the O2 levels until they can get him to breathing on hos own for awhile. The surgeon will be in today sometime to check him out then they will just evaluate him for a couple days to determine when surgery can be done.

We have jumped over the first huge hurdle and now we have several more to jump, but I have faith that he will do great. We just ask for continued thoughts and prayers and I will keep you all posted.

Love, 

Jaime, Jim, Finn, and Matthew