Jackson Moore!!!

For those who don't know, Colin and Angela had their baby!!!  He is a boy and the named him Jackson Emmanueli Moore.  He was born 3 weeks early and weighed 4lbs ?ozs.  He is in NICU in Ashevillle.   Below are a few e-mails I've received from Vickie.  She said to please pray for an open nicu room so when Jackson gets the okay he and mom and dad can all stay together.  

Here are the e-mails:

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7:37 Sunday evening...

Thank you all for your prayers.  Jackson is doing much better.  He has been taken off of the ventilator and the hole in his lung looks as if it will not present any more problems.  He is still getting a little help with some pressurized air in his nose (it looks like those oxygen nose tubes they give old people).  He is out from under the billiruben lights, they pulled the umbilical cord catheter out and in a few minutes they are going to let him try to breast feed for the first time.  On top of everything else it turns out that he was the rare rare case where his blood culture produced a false positive for infection.  They want to keep him on the antibiotics a few more days because they are a little concerned that he might have had some mild pneumonia.  In the words of his nurse, it is amazing how fast he has gotten better.  She says amazing, but we know how many people have been lifting our little guy up in prayer and sometimes prayer can do the things that medicine can't.  We'll definately be here for a little while longer, but things are really looking up. 

 

Love,

Angela, Colin, and Jack

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1:15 Sunday afternoon...

Good Afternoon Everyone,

 

I spent a great day with Angie, colin and Jack yesterday.  He came off the ventilator about 11 that morning and by 4 he was still doing fine.  He has a trickle of oxygen still entering his body but that should come out in the near future.  He is under the bilirubin lights to help a touch of jaundice but that is very common.  The hole in his lung seems to be healing just fine.  There are no signs of anything any different.  Angela got to hold him for about 40 minutes last night and while she did that his stats leveled off and looked great.  The second culture for infection is not growing anything --which is good.  All in all it was a great 24 hours. They hope to give him some breastmilk today -- which would be awesome.  Angela was able to freeze the good colostrum and that should be his first real meal.  He is down to 4lbs and 3oz but he will rebound.  He moves very well and is quite the little fighter.  Long and skinny is my best desciption. 

Continue to pray for complete healing, easy of nursing, and continues strength for Angela and Colin.  Toss in some added rest for good measure.  haha  Thank you all for your love, support and prayers.  You are a blessing.

Love you, Vickie