Some Jackson Details

Here is a little update on some of the things we have going on.  Jackson was born on Wednesday, April 25th at 10:47am.  On Thursday morning the pediatrician (that we love) said everything looked great and even talked of sending us home.  We convinced her we wanted a full 48 hours to recover and so we stayed another night.

On Friday morning at 5:00 am another pediatrician came in our room to tell us she detected a heart murmur and that Jackson would need an EKG before being discharged.  She said she wasn't too worried, but wanted to be on the safe side.  He apparently passed all of his other heart tests, but they still wanted to check.  That morning, Jackson had an EKG which was sent to the NICU at ECU.  We then heard back that everything was ok and to just keep an eye on it, but we didn't need to travel to Greenville.

Since Jackson was a bit jaundice, we had a follow up appointment at our doctor's office on Saturday and Sunday with a traveling doctor (not our normal pediatrician).  Both days we were told that the murmur was gone.  Relieved that all we had to worry about was getting his jaundice down and his weight up, we went home.

On Monday morning our normal doctor detected the murmur again.  She said again she wasn't to worried, but heard a "squeak" in his heart.  So now we wait again.  We will have an echo test done on Wednesday morning and if that is ok, then the doctor said she won't worry anymore.  Needless to say - we are tired.  Between all the doctor's visits and Jackson wanting to party at night, we are certainly ready for some parts of this to slow down.

I will keep you posted with the results on Wednesday, but your prayers are always appreciated.  Again at this point, it doesn't seem that the doctors are too worried.  We do appreciate how thorough and cautious they are being.

On a side note - the jaundice seems to be going down and Jackson's weight has almost reach birth weight again.  What a little champ!