National Prematurity Awareness Day

On Friday, August 21, 2009, Jacob was born 4 weeks premature at 35wk3d. If you have followed this blog or if you read my postings from August you will see this was the best and worst day of my life. The best because my son was born and worst because it was too soon. Jacob was only in the NICU for 10 days and I say only because so many premature babies are there for so much longer. Jacob was such a fighter and he spent 5 days hooked up to a ventilator because his lungs were to small to breath on their own. Jacob was 6 days old before I got to hold him for the first time. I remember going in there every day to see him and crying because he was hooked up to so many machines. I would think to myself, does he know I am here, does he know that he isn't fighting in this bed alone, I am fighting with him. I remember how scared I was to be at the hospital alone because I was so scared I would get call from the NICU that Jacob passed away, I always made Aaron call in the morning for the update because I was most worried through the nights.

But Jacob was a fighter and he made it through and if you saw him you would never know he was born early and spent the first days of his life fighting to live. I will never ever be able to thank God enough for taking care of my sweet Jacob.....so today I say thank you to God and to all the nurses and doctors that faught for my little boy.

Here's Woody.......

Jacob was Woody for Halloween. He had so much fun.....I can't believe how fast this year has gone!!!

One Year Photos....Finally

Jacob is doing great and getting so much better with walking.

Here are some photos from our last photo session.

Jacob is One

Jacob turned One on Saturday. We had a great party and here are some pictures.

Jacob has also started walking. We have had some falls, but I am told that is normal. He is really trying to figure this out and hopefully in a few weeks will be a pro.

Here are some party pictures

10 months

Jacob went to the doctor today and here are his 10 month stats:

Weight - 18lbs 1.75oz - 7th percentile, up from the 2nd percentile at 7 mo
Head - 18.5cm - 58th percetile and same percentile as 7 mo
Height - 30in - 86th percentile, up from the 35th percentile at 7 mo

We took pictures a couple of weeks ago and they came out great. Jacob isn't crawling, but can stand on his own for a few seconds and pulls up on everything. We think he might just skip crawling...oh and no teeth yet.

I love him so very much and can't believe he will be 1 on just a couple of month, where has all the time gone!!

He loves the water!!

Over the weekend, we went to a very close friend's house to swim. Jacob loved every minute of it. Then on Memorial Day we got out the baby pool and played some more. Here are pictures from the weekend. He is getting so big I can't believe it.

A few updates

Jacob is doing so well. He is such a happy little boy all the time. Daycare loves him and even some of the other parents have commented on how much he smiles at anyone who comes in the room.

Jacob is starting to make progress on wanting to crawl. He will start to crawl and then fall forward and then use his legs to scoot on his tummy to get what he wants, then once he gets the toy, he rolls over to his back and plays....it is fun to watch. Aaron and I are thinking he might be crawling by June.

Jacob will also stand if he is holding on to something. He doesn't do it very long, he will let go and fall down, but the boy has some strong legs.

We go to the doctor for our 9 month check up and shots in June so I will update his stats after the appointment. We are having his 9 month pictures taken on May 22 and will post them when they are done.

I did attached a couple of cute pictures taken on our first trip to see family in Louisiana. Jacob did so well until the last night.....and lets just say, after mommy drove him up and down the highway at 1am to get him to sleep, then let him sleep on her till 5am when he got up screaming again...we got in the car and drove straight home. I was one very tired mommy!!!