William David Weigle

Matt and I are so excited to announce the birth of our son, William David Weigle, on Monday, August 25th at 4:32 pm.  William was born at 32 weeks and 2 days gestation and weighed 2 lbs and 13 oz.  He was 15 3/4 inches long.  I developed severe preeclamsia with William as I did with Jack, so the doctor's decided it was necessary to deliver.  We are so thankful for the extra weeks and days that William was able to stay in my belly- he is doing so very well. 

Fortunately, I was able to get the suffoctant steroid to spur his lung development at 28 weeks. William came out breathing on his own and screaming- he was not happy to be leaving mommy's belly :)  He was put on CPAP to help him with his breathing shortly after he was born.  After one week on CPAP, they took William off of the oxygen this Monday (9/1) and he has been off ever since... and doing great!  Only one week on oxygen- compared to four months on oxygen for Jack- amazing.  The doctors gave the okay for William to take his first bottle yesterday- and he sucked the whole thing down, no problems.  We are hopeful he continues to do great with the sucking/swallowing and feeding. 

Boys- you can disregard this part if you'd like :)  Another amazing thing is that William tried to breastfeed on his own yesterday.  We were doing skin-to-skin and he just started trying, so we didn't stop him.  It was pretty amazing!  I pumped for 9 months with Jack and he was never able to breastfeed, so it makes me so happy that it might be a possibility to breastfeed William.  I've been pumping since William was born, so I'm trying to do that as much as possible to get my milk supply good and ready for him when he is ready.

We wanted to thank everyone for your prayers the last few months- 7 weeks of bedrest and in and out of the hospital- it has certainly been quite a roller coaster.  It's already moving so fast with William compared to Jack, they are saying he could be home in 2-3 weeks depending on how the feeding goes.  Pretty amazing compared to the 95 days that Jack was in the NICU.  Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers- we love you all!

Matt, Christine, Jack, William and Tucker