He is finally here. He was born April 20th at 6:31 pm, apparently the same birthday as Hitlers. Thanks for pointing that out Kyle. He weighed 8'6'' and was 20 1/2 inches long. He has brown eyes and brown hair. He actually has the most hair out of all my kids. It was quite a shock and he is obviously adorable as you can see. Unfortunately the little guy had what they call TTN and I'm not going to remember what that stands for. Basically he had fluid stuck in his lungs that they couldn't get out so he was having a hard time breathing. Some babies can clear it out in 24 hours but some can take up to a week or more and of course Austin decided he should be in the week or more category. They say it is alot more common with C-sections because the fluid doesn't get squeezed out in the birth canal. So they had to admit him to the NICU so that means 3 out 4 of our kids are part of the NICU club. Not bad huh. He was completely fine in every other aspect so it wasn't as bad as it was with our twins and we had done it all before so we were pros. A week after he was born we were finally able to bring him home but on oxygen which was our choice. We could either keep him in the NICU till he could breath fine on his own or bring him home earlier on oxygen. We wanted him home as soon as possible so we decided on the oxygen plus we had to do that with Tate also so we're pros at that as well. We are just so glad that he is finally home and we are a complete family. The kids were starting to think he wasn't real and Ben said he felt like Austin was the hospital's baby and we were just visiting. Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to take him off the oxygen completely. It would definitely make things alot easier. I'm getting a little sick of our Family room/master bedroom/nursery. As you can see in these pics Kennedy adores baby Austin. She is my little mom. Always helping me out. So far I haven't lost it yet with 4 kids but time will tell. Thanks to everyone that has been helping us out especially my mom and dad who bravely watched our three kids for an entire week.
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