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After a crazy few days, little Eli Fonner has arrived! He and mom are doing great. He’s 3 weeks premature, so he has to spend some time in the NICU, but we’re all optimistic he’ll be at full strength very soon.

We went into the hospital on Friday night with some minor complications. When we got to the hospital we discovered that Nicole was actually having mild, pre-term contractions (fake labor). The doctors gave her some drugs to stop the contracts and we were very close to being able to go home when the doctors detected an unexplained drop in Eli’s heartbeat. So they decided to keep us for another day. During the day and night on Saturday Eli showed mostly very strong stats but continued to every few hours have a dramatic drop in his heartrate. After the fourth time, the doctors did not to risk waiting and they decided that the best thing to do was to deliver our son!

Little Eli was born at 2:50am Sunday morning and, despite being only 34 1/2 weeks old, he weighed almost 6 lbs and measured almost 19 inches. His lungs are a little under developed so he’s being given some breathing assistance via a CPAP but hopefully within a few days he should be all back to normal. The doctors predict we’ll be able to bring him home in 1-3 weeks.

Nicole is recovering well and will be at the hospital until Thursday morning. If you want to stop by and see Nicole or Eli, visiting hours are from 11am to 8pm – just give us a call to let us know you’re coming.

Thanks to everyone for their well wishes already! More updates to come as things change.

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