Baby Elliott

Elliott Grant Ashton was born on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 3:23 in the afternoon in a c-section. He was 7 lbs 8.2 oz. and 21 3/4 inches long. He was rushed right in the NICU at the University of Utah Hospital and was doing very well. Brian got to be there while they did the first echocardiogram and Elliott is a calm little cucumber and let the doctors run their tests. It looks like he doesn't have a coarcation of the aorta and will not need surgery, but he does have pulmonary hypertension and is on antiobiotics to prevent pneumonia. He has had 3 echos so far and will have another on Monday. They can't figure out what exactly is wrong since he is not sympotmatic and doing so well. But he is doing so well we hope he can come home soon. He is quite a charming little fellow and all the nurses love him cuz he is so calm and easygoing and also quite large compared to other NICU babies.

Here is the proud papa Brian about 2 hours after birth when he finally got to check on our little one. I was still recovering from the c-section. They did wheel my bed into the NICU later and I got to see and hold Elliott for about 20 minutes. He is so precious!

Here is day 2 of Elliott's life and I got to hold him and try breast-feeding. Elliott is such a smart and strong little guy and caught the hang of it quite quickly.

The NICU nurses are so wonderful with Elliott and with letting Brian and I do as much as possible. We get to change his diapers, take his temp, and I at least get to feed him.

Hopefully our little man can come home quickly. We love him so much!