January for Jackson_We are GROWING!

Dear Family and Friends,

Oh boy are we excited to type this update. (New pictures have also been posted in our photo album)....

We are very thankful to inform everyone that as of January 29th Jackson is now 9 pounds 5 ounces and he just had another visit to the lung doctors which Dr. Fulmer said Jackson's lungs sound good and his apnea monitor report was 18 apnea spells which were FALSE ! and 17 brady's....which they are not real concerned about so we are allowed to take him off the monitor. Dad and mom are still concerned about the Brady's though so....We choose to keep the monitor for another month and limit the amount of time we have Jackson on it as we (dad and mom) need some time to adjust to him not being on a monitor (sorry Jackson).

Jackson's doctor's appointments in January started on:
January 2nd at Dr. Unite's office and then on Jan 5th with our Eye Doctor appointment.
We then had our first week of no appointments for Jackson- boy was that nice. We spent alot of time at home cuddling, eating, and sleeping.

On January 19th we went to Austin Children's Chest Associates to get our RSV shot which of course hearing about RSV and having the Nurse Practitioner explain to us how easy it is for him to catch and what to do to prevent him from getting RSV scared us- or at least Mom. She really didn't say anything we didn't already know as we are as isolated as we can get. Thus our isolation until June. Mom still gets nervous as whenever we go to the doctors we always hear staff or other patients coughing and sneezing, but we are not afraid to ask people to wash their hands. We try to do everything with Jackson and limit anyone touching him. We head home feeling much better as we have our shot in us and Jackson did a great job of not crying too much. Jackson also weighed in at 8lbs 3 ounces and is 20.5 inches long! We are getting big...

We then get some time off before our next doctor's visit which is our pediatrician's office- Treehouse Pediatrics. This appointment took place on January 24th for another weight check and guess what .... our little man is up to 8lbs 13 ounces! This appointment is our weight check only so all is well in that area.

Then on January 29th. We had our next lung doctor's appointment. Jackson is 9lbs 5 ounces and 22 inches long!

Wow we are so happy and again THANK YOU! We know that we wouldn't be where we are today if it wasn't for everyones prayers, and the medical teams that have taken care of Jackson.

On January 30th, visited Children's Hospital - not the ER but the hospital for a development appointment with Mary Stoner. The appointment went well. Jackson is falling in as an average 1 month old on the charts. His areas that need a some improvement are in his gross motor skills which we are working on at home.

On January 31st, February 1st Jackson started to have some loose stools and they think he "may" have gotten a touch of a bug. Kyle and I have no idea how as we don't go anywhere except to all our doctor's appointments, but you know hospitals are full of germs. Dad also goes to work but when he comes home he changes his shirt and washes his hands- now he takes a shower too- before touching Jackson. Mom took Jackson to the pediatrician's to see what was going on as she was very worried on Friday and they think he did catch something viral so we are watching his fluid intake, etc. Thankfully Jackson's only symptom is the loose stool. Our little boy still loves to eat and is a little more tired than normal but when he is awake, his bright blue eyes are checking everything out! Jackson also had just started some meds "new" meds so...who knows. Mom also had talked to Kim the Nurse practitioner many times on the phone prior to the appointment and is very thankful to Kim for all her help! We seemed to manage most of this from the phone. The doctors appointment was just to because the loose stools continued and mom was extremely worries. Jackson's temp at the doctors was 99.7. As of yesterday his temp was around 98.9. We can't thank Dr.Addy enough for getting Jackson in to see her.

Well, today we will have our Wellness Check at the pediatrics office we pray this goes well and have faith that it will. Then I believe we get 2 weeks off before another doctors visit.

We continue to thank God everyday for Jackson. We also want to thank everyone who has been praying for Jackson and who continues to pray for Jackson. We are blessed to be where we are today and we can't thank everyone enough for the prayers. They sure are working!

We also want to thank all the wonderful people who took care of Jackson in the NICU and who are helping take care of Jackson now. We will be forever thankful for all that you have done and all that you are doing.

We hope this email finds everyone keeping warm!

Thank you!
With Love,
Kyle, Erica and Jackson