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Whitney Batesis sharing an update on her newborn’s health two days after giving birth.
“Shortly after birth, his O2 levels dropped and he was transferred to NICU at East TN Children’s Hospital. As of right now, he is stable and responding to treatment,” writes the mom. “They will continue treatment, running tests, and monitoring until he is strong enough to come home.”
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Whitney — who is also mom to daughtersKhloé Eileen, 19 months, andKaci Lynn, 5 later this month, and sonBradley Gilvin, 6½ — adds of meeting her newborn: “After months of waiting on our special boy, finally meeting Jadon face to face was all we dreamed it would be and more. There’s no way to describe the feeling and emotions we felt when we first held him in our arms.”
“He is perfect in every way,” she says.
Jadon weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz., at birth. The couple’s rep told PEOPLE, “Bradley [the couple’s first son] is named after Zach’s dad, Gilvin, and Zach and Whitney always knew that if they had another little boy they wanted to name it after Whitney’s dad, Jimmy Carl, who goes ‘JC’ or ‘J.’ They chose Jadon Carl, giving him the same middle name and initials as his Papaw.”
Speaking with PEOPLE last year, Whitney explained that herpregnancy had not been without its challenges, as she and her husband were both diagnosed with COVID-19.
source: people.com
