Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Welcome to the world, Lawson!

Here's the email I sent to announce his arrival:

We are pleased to announce the arrival of our beautiful baby boy, Lawson Rhett Levering, named after my grandfather, Everett, which means 'strength'. He arrived last night at 11:09pm after a fairly easy labor. As we had expected, he was rushed away to the NICU, but we did get a quick glimpse of him and he is absolutely gorgeous; dirty blond hair like daddy! :) He was 6lbs 2oz and 19 1/2 inches long. The preliminary reports were positive, better than we had expected. Yet he will still require a lot of intensive care over the next several weeks. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers!

This picture was taken just a few hours after he was born. He's very swollen. The tube in his mouth is the jet ventilator, which is breathing for him. The white squares with pink circles are the leads for the monitors showing us his heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature. There are tubes going into his chest on both sides to extract the fluid from his lungs. The tube coming from his umbilical cord is the arterial line. The nurses can check his blood pressure and take blood from this line.

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