Austin is born!
2005-09-AustinBirth (154 images) - Austin was born 4 weeks early at 6:03am on September 3rd; weighing in at 2.566kg (~5.5lbs). Given that he was technically a "premie" with only 36 weeks of gestation, he had underdeveloped lungs when he came out, and had excess residual fluid in them. This combination of smaller lungs, and fluid was too much for him to handle on his own, so he was moved immediately into ICU and put on assisted oxygen within an incubator. This lasted for 8 days. He remained for 3 more days after that (for a total of 11) within the hospital for observation. Gut wrenching for us both to witness him so fragile and in distress, but everything has worked out in the end, and he's home with us now!
posted by Altus at 9:23 PM
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