Jackson has been alive about 20 hours now, and it's been a long 20 hours already. Neither Jill nor I got really any sleep last night. We were too excited, and with trying to Jackson to breast feed we had our hands full. Breast feeding it turns out is a much more complicated and nuanced process than we previously appreciated. We couldn't quite get him to latch on, and all he ended up doing was biting Jill.
Then in the morning, when the nurse shift change occurred, the new nurse noticed that Jackson was sighing a lot and shaking a little bit. She was concerned so she took him back to the nursery to have him checked out. They did a variety of blood tests, and had the on call Doctor come give him a quick check up. The Doctor said that he appeared to be healthy with no obvious problems, but one of the tests came back that his blood glucose level was low. Apparently a score of 50 is considered low, and Jackson's score was 42. They gave him some formula which he gulped down with a passion. They left him in the heat ray for a while and within an hour he was looking and feeling good.
He's already developed quite the personality, and when he's awake he's always looking around the room and trying to focus. He makes the most cutest little cooing and gurgling sounds that we're sure everyone will fall in love with.
Jill is pretty wiped out and I'm giving her a little alone time right now so that she can try to catch a few winks before Jackson needs to feed again.
More pics after the link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/phorne96/JacksonOneDayOld
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