2 pounds!

We've had an amazing weekend with the little boy. We havent been able to spend as much time with him as we did last weekend because we've been trying to balance normal life with the other two kids. Pinewood derby and a birthday party were yesterday, and we have to make them feel as normal as possible even though it was so hard to be so away from the baby all day.

I was a little down because we didnt make it to the hospital until 5pm yesterday, but it was worth the wait because the nurse let me do skin-to-skin for the first time. It was the most amazing experience to hold him to me for the first time, since my biggest fear so far has been that I'd never get a chance to hold him. I sat and rocked him for 30 minutes, and every bit of fear and stress was completely gone. We were a bit bummed that John couldnt hold him since only one person can hold him each day for the time being, but I was confident little John would stay stable on his breathing so big John could hold him today.

Sure enough, when we showed up this morning little John was bright eyed and bushy tailed. Its like he knew we were coming. We changed a poopy diaper (yay!) and after his cares were done the nurse let big John hold him skin-to-skin. Little baby sat there with his eyes open trying to look up at his daddy. He recognizes his voice, and I bet it made his day to be so close to dad. John got to rock him to sleep for 30 minutes, while I got to sneak in some kisses and some whiffs of the baby smell in his neck. He smells like his isolette, but its better than nothing!

Here's how he's doing otherwise: he weighs 2 lb 2 oz, though hes swelling a bit from his IV. He's been eating for 2 days and has been keeping it down. They pull a bit of undigested residual food out before each feeding, but not as much as they were pulling out last week. He's pooping a little bit which gives me hope that things are moving along. He's doing great on breathing and all of his other stats look great, so now they're just focusing on getting him to tollerate his feedings. He's gaining weight so well just from the IV, I can't wait to see how fast he plumps up once he's regularly getting milk. He's finally getting fat on his non-existant bum, I can't wait until its fat enough to pinch!

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