Hayden Alex Jackson

Introducing Hayden Alex Jackson, born Dec 4th 2010 at 8:15am via emergency C-section. He weighed in at a whopping 3lbs 14oz. Not bad for a baby who was born at 28 weeks 6 days gestation. I know this post is a little late in coming and I do have more updated photos (this pic was taken when Hayden was just a little over 24 hours old), it's just that I don't have them on the computer yet. So when I can get Mike to put them on I will update the blog again.
Hayden is now 3 weeks old and doing very well. He has been breathing on his own since he was 3 days old, he eats full strength breast milk through his NG tube and has recently moved to an open bed which means he is doing pretty well at maintaining his own temp. Now we are waiting for him to be ready to learn how to breast feed. It will still be at least another couple weeks because sucking is a developmental milestone and he isn't quite there yet. Although the nurses say he likes his pacifier on occasion.
We are just so happy to have Hayden in our family. We sure wish he could have "baked" a bit longer...it's hard to not have him with us, but we know he is being well cared for in the NICU and we enjoy our visits with him and the opportunities we have to hold him. He is a sweet little guy!