Merrik Oliver Enszer

Introducing Merrik Oliver Enszer born May 20th at 11:18 AM. He weighs 7 pounds, 2 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. I got to hold him for about 2 minutes as the pediatric Dr explained to me that he looked completely healthy and great. But while I was in the recovery room after getting stitched up the Dr and Jacob came back in to tell me that every breath he had taken was extremely labored and he was humming with each breath. If he kept breathing like that for long he would wear out his little body and have a lot worse problems. They had to take him to a different hospital to be watched.
It has been a long couple of days. The Dr's have been running tests and trying to figure out exactly what is causing the breathing problems. After many tests they found that there is no infection his lungs are just not fully developed, he is anemic and he has a broken collar bone. The Dr talked to Jacob and I yesterday and explained that they were going to have been trying to let Merrik fix himself with just the little it of oxygen that they had been giving him but he felt like it was time for them to intervene. They put him on a ventilator to give his body a rest. They also gave him a blood transfusion to help with the anemia. Today he has been doing better. They are slowly weaning him off the oxygen and so far he has tolerated it really well. They are hoping to be able to take him off the vent tomorrow. I hope they are able to. I would really like to hold my sweet baby.