Little John is 4 weeks old today, and it's crazy how fast time has gone by and how far he's come. He weighs 2lbs 11 oz and is 14.5 inches long. He is growing so fast that I can see a difference every single day. We finally got some unoficial results from the echo on his heart last week. The murmur isnt from PDA (yay!), which I blogged about last week. It appers that there is a tiny opening between chambers in his heart that should close on its own as he grows, and it is even a common thing on full-term babies. He is being weaned off the humidity in his isolette today which means he can graduate to the next isolette. This next one has a heating element that makes it easier to wean them to room temperature and an open bed when he reaches about 1800 grams. Hes at 1210 grams now, so he should get there in just a couple of weeks.
Visits are better now that we get to hold him again. We have his nurse practitioner backing us up now. They've told us that even if he's not gaining weight, we should still hold him no matter what his nurses tell us. Today John held him for an hour while he ate his whole 21 ml of lunch. Then he got snuggled up in his bed so he could stare at the valentines we taped to the side of his isolette.
Well, I'm to my stop now so I'm off to pick up the kids and do all my errands and chores. That train ride didnt feel near long enough!
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