NICU

Right after Maxwell was born, I held him for about 10 seconds and then the nurse took him away to NICU. They said that his breathing wasn't quite normal and needed to make sure his lungs were working properly.

Well, they weren't. His air sacs hadn't opened up properly. They ended up putting a mask on him that forced air into his lungs, when that didn't work they put a tube down into his lungs. A fluid then lubricated his air sacs, forcing them to open. Eventually, his breathing became normal, but, he then had jaundice. The doctors put three huge, bright lights on him to help his number go down. It worked eventually!!