We’ve had another good day in the NICU. Tonight Zane Ethan got his IV line taken out, which means he will only be receiving nutrition through his bottle feedings. This also means that more than likely, he will ‘graduate’ from the area of the NICU we’ve been in and will moved into Bay #5. This is his second day in a regular nursery bed instead of the big ICU type of bed with the heaters, respiratory hook-ups and the like. We are really making strides!
This morning Laurie’s parents, niece, nephew, grandmother and Mignon all left to head back to north Texas. It was a little traumatic for all of us. Mignon told us over and over the last few days “I just want to go home Momma…can we go home Daddy?” We did have a good visit with all of them and Mignon loved how Santa ended up visiting her three different times in three different places! Laurie’s grandmother said over-all Mignon has been a real trooper through everything, staying happy and being really good for her Grommy and DanDan.
The comforting aspect is that it appears we will not have to be here as long as we first thought. Zane is up to 50cc per feeding with a mix of the special formula and Momma’s milk. As soon as he gets up to the full 50 cc of just Momma’s milk and has a day or two to work on nursing, we will be released! Right now, we are thinking that we may stay here a couple of days after he is released just to get settled in and make sure we are ALL ready for the journey home and in case they schedule any follow ups for Zane with any of his doctors. We will just wait and see how these next days go and should know more by the end of the week. This version of waiting is not nearly so hard since we get to hold our little guy, feed him, change diapers and still get to return to the apartment and get a full night’s sleep! We are trying to take advantage of this as long as we have it and get rested up for when we come home.
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Precious. He looks like his Daddy. :)
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