Well after 9 months (4 of which were a roller coaster of emotions) Ethan David arrived at 9:27 am via c-section. Weighing in at 6 pounds 11 ounces and 20 inches long. He has strawberry blonde hair and very handsome.

This is what I know so far..he is on a vent to stablize his breathing and is completely sedated.

He does have SLO (which is what his older brother Charles has...even though we didn't see any indication via u/s and I didn't want an amnio there was still a 25% chance he would have it.)

He has a cleft in his mouth but not the cleft lip.

and now for his heart...at 20 weeks gestation I was informed he has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. They did an echo on him shortly after getting to Akron Childrens and found that he is missing a valve in his heart..so they are evaluating on how to treat that. I called about 20 minutes ago and he is stable so far which is good.

I am waiting on the doctors to come and tell me everything that is going on, but I figured I would give a short update. Tomorrow they are gonna get me out of bed and I am going to try to see my baby.

This is an emotional time for me and I thank everyone for being there. I have my cell so any text/calls would be awesome.

Melissa

**will update after I talk with Ethan's doctors.**