Baby Peyton's Arrival

Peyton Shawn Davis was born June 26, 2009. Alaina was only 27 wks pregnant. Peyton was born at 2:07pm at Women's Hospital of Texas. He weighed 1 lb, 13 oz and measured 14.75 inches. Peyton opened his eyes in the delivery room, so that is exciting. Right now they have his eyes taped closed with cotton balls and he is on all kinds of monitors. He has a feeding tube through his belly button. These first three days are life-threatening. No one can touch him, but they can see him. After that the next benchmark is 10-12 days of life--that is when they will know that the brain is ok. If he makes it through that then I think it means he will be fairly normal. He cannot come home until he would have been 37 gestational wks, so about 10 wks. Mommy is doing good physically! Mommy and Daddy are struggling emotionally.