at 8:10 p.m.

Blair has had a good day. While he does have a feeding tube, he ate 5 cc's from a bottle this morning and then about 4 cc's from a bottle this afternoon. The feeding tube is providing him with about 10 cc's each hour continuously. We were able to give him the afternoon bottle and change one diaper each.

Thanks and praise be to God for protecting and healing our sweet baby boy Blair.

Mom & Dad

at 10:55 p.m.

Thanks be to God--the breathing tube is out. It was removed about 1:30 p.m., and Blair has done well with his breathing and oxygen levels since then. He seems much more comfortable which is such a relief to see. He is still getting a little oxygen through nasal cannula. Our next goal is feeding. We hope that he can start eating tomorrow. The nurses tell us he is hungry so we cannot wait for him to get some real food!!! We hope he will be able to take a bottle right away, but he may need a feeding tube for a while. We hope they will try a bottle for the first time tomorrow.

Continued thanks to all who are praying and thinking about Blair.

Thanks and praise be to God for bringing Blair into our lives and for continuing to protect and heal him.

Mom & Dad

at 4:55 p.m.

Blair is still in very stable condition, but he is also still on the ventilator. The doctors are continuing to move very slowly with him, but he continues to show his fighting spirit. He continues to have bouts of anger with the breathing tube. Although it is tough for us to watch sometimes, this is a good sign according to his cardiologist.

Please continue to pray for our sweet little boy. Thanks and praise be to God for all He is doing to protect and heal sweet Blair.

at 9:35 p.m.

Blair is doing much better tonight. His blood pressure medicine was stopped about 4:45 p.m. today, and he responded well. His ventilator settings have been reduced significantly throughout the day, and he handled that well too. The plan is still to try to remove his breathing tube sometime tomorrow. We are very hopeful.

We are seeing more and more of his personality every minute. He continues to fight hard. We cannot express how grateful we are for him and for all of your prayers and support. Thanks and praise be to God.

Mom & Dad

at 3:55 p.m.

Blair is continuing to improve every hour. His chest tube was taken out early this morning. His blood pressure is getting better and better. He will remain on the ventilator today, but the hope is they can start weaning him from it tomorrow. He is a lot less puffy looking today, and he is acting spunkier. He is now just over 48 hours out from surgery.

Thank you all for your continued prayers and thoughts for Blair.

Thanks and praise be to God for watching over our sweet baby boy Blair.

Mom & Dad

at 9:25 p.m.

We spent all day with Blair. He is doing better, but his nurses and doctors are still watching him very carefully during this post-operative period. His blood pressure is much better than it was this morning. He is still on the ventilator, but we are hoping he might try to get off of it tomorrow. That will, of course, depend on how he does tonight. We also hope that they will take his chest tube out tomorrow.

He opened his eyes a few times today and held his mommy and daddy's hands (or fingers) all day. We got to tell him (and his wonderful nurse, Lou) lots of stories about everything from how we met and got engaged to funny stories about all of his relatives. We are also telling him about all of the wonderful family and friends who are praying for him and already love him.

While he had a rough start to his day, he is still fighting so hard, and we both really feel like he was doing so much better by the end of the day. We cannot wait for him to meet everyone. Again, thank all of you for your continued prayers. Thanks and praise be to God for continuing to watch over and protect our sweet baby boy Blair.

Mom & Dad

Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 10:35 a.m.

Thank you all for your continued prayers and thoughts for Blair. Blair did well most of the night, but then had a little scare with his blood pressure early this morning. Please keep praying that Blair's blood pressure will regulate soon, and the doctors can fully stabilize him so they can try to take him off of the ventilator today. Thanks and praise be to God for watching over and protecting our sweet baby boy Blair.

Mom & Dad

Friday, May 26, 2006

Blair is out of surgery and doing well. We have talked with the surgeon who performed the repair, and he said everything went well. Blair was stable throughout the surgery. The surgery took a little longer than expected only because the left PA branched out from the right PA a little further down the right PA (closer to the lung) than they thought going into the surgery.

Blair will be zonked out for most of the rest of the day due to the effects of the anesthesia. We hope he may be back off of the ventilator by sometime tomorrow.

Thanks and praise be to God for taking care of Blair. Thank you all for your continued prayers for Blair.

Stephen Blair Moseley, Jr. was born Friday, May 19, 2006 at 8:48 p.m. He was 4 pounds, 15.75 ounces and 17 inches long. He was born at 33 weeks and 6 days. He spent his first two days in the NICU at Floyd Medical Center in Rome. On Monday, May 22, Blair was transported to Egleston Childrens Hospital in Atlanta after the pediatric cardiologist in Rome found what he believed to be a pulmonary artery defect.

Blair does not have any of the heart defects which we believed he had earlier in the pregnancy. The defect he has is called a pulmonary artery (PA) sling. This means his left pulmonary artery branches out from his right pulmonary artery rather than from his main pulmonary artery. This condition will require surgery to repair it.

Although this condition is more rare than the earlier heart defects we believed Blair had, it is supposed to be easier to fix. One of the doctors told us the surgery to repair the earlier defects rates a 6 out of 6 on a scale of difficulty/complexity. The surgery Blair needs is more like a 2 out of 6. Part of the problem with the PA sling is that the left PA is putting pressure on Blair's trachea.

On Thursday (May 25, 2006), the doctors performed a test (bronchoscopy) to look down his trachea to see how much pressure is being placed on it and to see what (if any) abnormalities exist in the trachea. The results of the bronchoscopy were needed to help determine the extent of the problems associated with the PA sling. Thanks be to God, the bronchoscopy showed very little compression on the trachea by the PA and no abnormalities of any significance. We are so thankful for this awesome test result.

With the good bronchoscopy test result, the cardio-thoracic surgeon can proceed with the surgery to repair Blair's PA sling. The surgey will occur on Friday (May 26, 2006) mid-morning.

Blair was taken back to surgery at 10:00 a.m. this morning. The surgery is expected to last about 2 to 3 hours.

For those who can visit us, we are at Egleston Childrens Hospital on the Emory campus (located on Clifton Road). Once inside the hospital, take the Main Elevator to the 2nd floor and the NICU waiting area.

Thank you to everyone who has been praying for our sweet baby boy. We can hardly wait for you all to meet him. Please continue to keep Blair and his Mom and Dad in your prayers and thoughts.

Praise be to God for all He has done for Blair up to now and continues to do for him this morning.