James Michael Ball, II is a wonderful baby. After a two week stay in the NICU of Arkansas Children's Hospital, he is in great shape and handling his sisters very well. He was born as what the nurses there called "whimpy white boy", meaning that his lungs were wet and he was in respiratory distress. Apparently this condition is most commonly found in caucasian males! Even though he had a birth weight of 8 pounds, 14 ounces, he was on a ventilator for oxygen and had plenty of probes in him keeping track of his heartbeat, repiratory rate and his oxygen saturation level in his blood. At Children's he was in great hands. The nurses and staff were wonderful to be around and I know he received excellent care. He was under a heat lamp constantly and didn't even wear clothes for the first week of his life! You can see in this phot, too, that he had "baby cuffs" on his hands because he keept trying to pull out his tubes and probes. He was strong, he just wasn't breathing well.
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