On November 11, 2019 I was scheduled for a elective c-section at 39+2 for our baby boy. At 8:22am Jaxon Scott Thompson was born weighing 9.2lbs! He was having trouble breathing and swallowed a lot of fluid on his way out. They took him straight from the operating room to the NICU. It was not until later that evening that we could actually meet our baby boy! We were told that he was just going to need some oxygen...come to find out his lungs did not develop surfactant, he was put on a C-Pap machine and was on 100% oxygen and we were told that he was extremely sensitive to light, sound and touch. We were so broken knowing we could not touch or hold our baby boy!! 11-12-2019 we were told that they intubated Jaxon to give him surfactant because he was Struggling and tugging so hard to breathe and that he just needed a break. He was diagnosed with Respiratory Distress Syndrome and that he had developed Pneumothorax which is a air hole in his lung. He was on ZERO stimulation at that time so we could not even go to the NICU to see our baby boy!! On 11-13-2019 when we visited our baby he was wide awake and so alert and he even let mommy and daddy hold him hands without his O2 dropping and I got to change his diaper for the first time. On 11-14-2019 he was removed from the vent and that was the first day that they fed him my breast milk through his feeding tube! We also got to experience HOLDING OUR BABY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! It was truly magical! Everyday he keeps getting a little bit better...Jaxon is still on his C-Pap machine and still being fed through a feeding tube. They told us once he is weaned down on the CPAP and once they are able to remove it and if his Respiratory Breaths can stay under 80 and his oxygen can stay above 95 I will get to actually breast feed him but for now we just have to take it one day at a time and let him rest and let him tell us when he is ready to be off the machine. We just continue to be patient with our baby boy and pray that each day is better than the last!