Ethan Scott

After 13 hours in labor (9 of which were considered active labor at the hospital) and about 10-15 minutes of pushing, our little boy arrived into the world at 11:15am on Friday April 1, 2011. His weight was 6 pounds 11 ounces and he was 19 3/4 inches long.

Ethan was born 3 weeks early and his lungs are under developed for being 37 weeks. He is currently in the NICU and is on a c-pap machine for the apnea and iv fluids and oxygen for the RDS (respiratory distress syndrome). Due to the fact that when he gets upset he stops breathing, we are not allowed to touch him yet. We were originally told he could be in the hospital between 3-5 days or as much as 2 weeks. After speaking to Ethan's doctor in the NICU, Ethan has been put on antibiotics to fight a possible infection, he is on morphine to take the edge off, and he will be in the hospital between 10-14 days.