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By Kit Brothers Globe Health Writer Connor Gray Bounds is throwing his weight around — all 7 pounds of it. He does not like to sleep in the dark, and he does like to eat a lot. Even Santa Claus is bringing him plenty this year. Connor’s parents, Dennis and Mikell Bounds, are thankful that their firstborn is able to make known most of his demands. Mrs. Bounds, 26, was pregnant and due on Nov. 27. Labor began Aug. 29. “T was just barely six months,” she says. Labor started with contractions six to eight minutes apart. Within six hours, the Bounds had a baby boy. Connor weighed 2 pounds, 5 ounces. He was born at Freeman Hospital and moved by helicopter to Cox Medical Center South, Springfield. Because his lungs were not fully developed, he spent six weeks on a ventilator. One time, his potassium level was so high that it caused heart problems. Another crisis came when one of his lungs became over-inflated. “Every time they would do something to him, we'd be real upset,” Mrs. Bounds says. The Joplin couple were with their son almost 24 hours a day for about four weeks. Then she returned to work as a surgical nurse at Freeman. “We made three trips a week up there,” says Dennis Bounds, who is a Joplin policeman. See Baby, 14A Globe Photo/CHARLES SNOW All three members of the Bounds family are home for the holiday. Connor Bounds, son of Dennis and Mikell Bounds, spent the first three months of his life in hospitals.
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Dec 25, 1987
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