9lbs 2oz

I apologize for not posting sooner. All the days run together when you are at the hospital. I honestly thought it was Monday today until I talked to QuasiPfred on the phone. The good news is that Jacob was born at 5:02pm on 10/17/2008. The bad news is that he will have to stay at the hospital for a while. When he nurses he stops breathing for far too long and his blood-oxygen saturation gets far too low. I guess this is common in premature babies but rare in full term babies like Jacob. Anyway, the part of his brain that forces him to breath when there is not enough oxygen in his blood is not fully developed yet and he will need to stay in the hospital until it is. The good news is that as long as he is in the hospital and hooked up to a blood-oxygen saturation monitor he is not in any danger. Also, there is no reason to believe that he won't get to go home fairly soon. But enough about that, here are the pictures: