Welcome Jaxson!

Jaxson Nathan Hoye made his arrival on September 18, 2007 @ 8:25 am. He came via a scheduled c-section because he was breech. The delivery went smooth, although he must have been quite comfortable because it took the docs a little extra work to get him out. I won't get graphic, you can ask Ryan about it, because he watched the whole thing. And I, watched Ryan's eyes light up as they pulled him out. He cried immediately, the cutest cry I ever heard. Ryan attended to Jaxson, and brought him over to me so we could meet.

I soon forgot that I had a team of people working on me, and could only think of how grateful I was to finally meet this little guy. Proud papa brought his son out to meet his grandparents.

I met up with them shortly after. We all loved on him like the little prince he is. We were discharged from the hospital 2 days early, which we were thankful for because we weren't getting any sleep. The only thing was that as we were leaving, they weighed Jaxson one last time, and found that he had lost a little more weight than the norm....and also found that his bilirubin levels were increasing, which would indicate Jaundice. We promised to bring him back in the morning for a blood test to get an accurate count of the bilirubins and found it again had increased. This started a chain of blood tests, and Dr. visits in the days proceeding. We hadn't pictured that when we finally got him home, that we would be carting this little pot of gold all over in his young days, getting poked and examined, it was a little hard to bear, and by Sunday we found out that his bilirubin levels were getting too high. The docs decided to re-admit him to the hospital for light therapy. This was really disappointing, but at the same time we were relieved because we just wanted him to get better. We stayed the next 18 hours with him. We watched him the whole time under the lights, laying there like he was at the beach. He also kept trying to rip his eye protectors off, so we had to make sure they stayed on.

We are now home and working on fattening the little guy up. It's amazing how fast the days have gone by already. Here are some more of my favorite pictures from Jaxson's first week.