Aimee Aguilar was told her newborn son might not survive, after a vehicle crash last month led to his delivery by emergency Caesarean section. Now she likes what she hears.

"You know how parents - you know, they don't like to hear their kids cry," Aimee Aguilar said Wednesday, shortly before 1-month-old Jordan was released from a Fargo hospital. "Well, when he cries it's a blessing. It's a good feeling."

Jordan was born with signs of brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, and hospital officials say his future is still uncertain. But he has been able to tolerate feedings and maintain his temperature in an open crib.

Aimee sat in a chair Wednesday during a news conference before leaving the hospital and held her son, dressed in a baby blue sleeper and blue hat. Jordan opened his eyes a couple of times and squeezed his mom's finger.

"For the first few days, we weren't sure that Jordan was going to survive," said Candace Cox, a neonatal nurse practitioner at Fargo's MeritCare Hospital.

"We are at the point where it's obviously a very happy day, because we're going home and we're all very excited about this," Cox said.

Aimee Aguilar, 20, of Detroit Lakes, Minn., was driving a sport utility vehicle that collided May 3 with another vehicle driven by a 16-year-old girl. The crash happened on state Highway 200 in Mahnomen County, Minn. Authorities have not released the name of the other driver.

Aguilar, who was nine months pregnant at the time, underwent an emergency C-section in Detroit Lakes after the crash and gave birth to Jordan, who was airlifted to MeritCare.

"I think the first two weeks was fear and a lot of tears," said Joe Aguilar, Jordan's father.

The Aguilars plan to move from Detroit Lakes to Mahnomen, Minn., so they can be closer to what Aimee calls "a huge family support system." Jordan will have therapy at home and will be monitored regularly by a MeritCare pediatrician, Cox said.

Jordan is going home with a feeding tube but drinking from a bottle, his mother said. The tube is used if he can't finish a full feeding in 30 minutes.

The last month has been an emotional roller coaster, Joe said.

"From, you know, knowing that there's a chance that we were going to lose him, to this day," he said. "That was really, really hard. But I'm really happy that we're able to bring him home and he's still here."

Said Aimee, "To be honest, I never thought I'd ever even get to see this day."