Baby boy was born yesterday (1/31) at 6:08PM

He's a little chunky at 7 lbs 13 oz and measured 19.5 inches long

Today around 5 or 6pm he started breathing pretty fast at around 80 per min

He's been acting fussy and like he's ready to eat. Ive been trying to breastfeed every 2 to 3 hours but worried I wasn't making enough and thought that was why he was being fussy.

He's having to stay in the nursery for a while to monitor him and make sure he can get some antibiotics started in case he might have an infection and the blood work takes like 2 days to come back. (They do this as a precaution instead of waiting to see if it is an infection and starting too late on meds.)

Chest xray came back all good so I'm glad for that.

But now since he's still breathing fast I can't breast or bottle feed him so he has to get a tube put in for food, which sounds horrible but we can't wait to see if he'll calm down enough to eat. They told me it should be a one time thing thankfully...

So they told me he'll most likely need an IV for antibiotics and I'm really hoping he won't have to be tube fed again and calms down enough to be fine.

Anyways.... So now I'm here in the room bawling my eyes out cuz my poor baby is being poked and stuck and I just wish he didn't have to go through this.

So if y'all could send good thoughts and prayers this way I'd appreciate it. So far it seems like its nothing major but it's kind of a waiting game on everything and as a FTM it's pretty rough emotionally.

Thanks in advance to everyone ❤