knox update

We are so blessed and praising God that Knox is here finally. I did not know it was possible to love him this much. We knew going into delivery at 36 weeks that he may require oxygen. For the first 4 hours after he was born we were able to keep him in our room with us thanks to our friend Kim who is a nurse who volunteered to stay with us to help transition him. He was having trouble breathing and cried the entire 4 hours. I got to hold him a few times but at the end of the hours we knew he had to go to the NICU. They put him on a "C-Pap" which is a large breathing tube that sits in his nose. Normal breathing is at 21 percent oxygen and Knox was requiring about 50 percent. He was working really hard to breath and it broke my heart watching him struggle but we have been assured since friday that this is going to take time. Last night at 8 they decided to give him a little procedure of giving him medicine through a tube to help his lungs develop a little faster. Immeditely his Oxygen went from 50 percent to 28 percent which was great. He slept all night last night with the C-Pap in breathing much better. Today they decided to take the C-pap out and put a fisher canula (sp?) in its place which is much smaller tubes for breathing and makes him work a little harder than with the C-Pap in. They did this at 3 this afternoon and its 9:30 pm now and he is still on it which is good. his oxygen is higher again about 40 percent but everything is working better thn before.SO now at this point we are waiting to see how he handles it through the night and hopefully he will be able to stay on it so he doesnt need more help. Our prayer is to keep him comfortable and his lungs to strengthen so he can come off the oxygen all together and come home soon! We are staying here at the hospital with him this week until he comes home. They say its on his time when he will be ready but we are thinking at the earliest this Thursday or friday he may be ready to come home. There just is not any way to tell when except time.

I got to hold him today finally once he came off his C-Pap and he loved it. I loved it too of course! Joey and I talked to him and he kept opening his little eyes and snuggling next to me, I was sad to leave him. We are going to wait till tomorrow to hold him again so we dont get him worked up too much tonight.

I will update tomorrow to let you know his progress. I am praising God for giving us such an incredible little boy who has a ton of fight in him and that he will be fine once we get him through this little bump in the road.

Please keep praying for him we are honestly counting on them!