An Update Finally!

OK, so I have been horrible with keeping this up! It seems like my schedule is so crazy with pumping and going to the hospital that the free time I have I just like to rest. I thought though, you might enjoy an update on our little man.

He is AMAZING! It is getting harder and harder to leave him. He is really changing and growing and just so much fun to stare at. He should be about 4lbs when I check today (I only ask his weight every other day. Sometimes he loses weight so if I ask every day it will drive me crazy.). He is doing well with the bottle. They had him on a bottle every other feeding and would give him the milk through his tube in his nose for the other feedings. Yesterday they switched him to a bottle as much as he will take it. Adam gave him his third bottle in a row yesterday. They say that after 2 or 3 he should get tired and not take one, but we will see. They switch him because he pulled out his feeding tube again Saturday night. He said "enough with this!"

Saturday late afternoon they took him out of his temperature regulated bed and put him in a "crib" (their version of a crib) since he is big enough to regulate his own temperature. Since he is in his big boy crib now, we got to dress him yesterday and he just looked too cute! Below are the adorable pictures of him! They took him off of his caffeine yesterday so we are praying he does well and remembers to breathe. They also took off his monitor that measure the oxygen in his blood. He had a big weekend.

I know you all keep asking about the time frame of when he gets to go home...it is very soon. We'll have a better idea towards the middle of the week. It really depends on him. We are praying he doesn't have any setbacks. As long as he keeps getting better with the bottle and keeps breathing and doesn't do anything too crazy, he'll get to come home shortly. I have seen a couple of babies have an episode the day before they were supposed to come home and have to stay another week. Jacob has just blown everyone's socks off. The nurses say that normally white boys do the worse (odd, but true) and white girls do the best and he is keeping up with the white girls and just amazing everyone. Please pray that he keeps it up. Our desire for him is to baffle the nurses and doctors. So far he has done that and we just want him to keep it up so that he can come home soon.

Enjoy the pictures. He already has such a personality...