Progress!!

I got to hold my baby again!!!!!! I am so excited. When I got to the hospital this morning my nurse asked me immediately if I wanted to change Eli's diaper, of course I wanted to! So I got to do that first thing, almost before I even had a chance to put my coffee down! (It was kind of funny since it was a size 1 diaper which is for like 12 lbs and up, and my child is more like 4 lbs, and usually in P (or premie) diapers, so it was a bit awkward trying to put a diaper on that is the size of his entire torso!! But we managed). Then she asked if I had held him yet, and I said no, so she pulled in a chair and we got him and all of his wires ready and I got to hold him for 30 minutes before I had to go pump. He was fast asleep and all bundled so we just put him back in his bed to get some rest. I am glad he is more sleepy today since he seems so much more peaceful.

I have a feeling today is going to be a lot quieter. We did all of his big stuff yesterday and now we just need to wait and let him rest and heal. He still has his central line and arterial line, and those will both stay in for a few more days as they ween him off his various medications. But we can handle lines! Plus having them makes getting blood draws and things easier because they can do that through the lines, without having to poke him more. They were even discussing during rounds, where he should go when he's done in the CICU. They are not sure if he should just go to the "floor" which is a different floor of the hospital and is more like regular hospital rooms and not 1 to 1 nurse care, or if he should go back next door to the NICU. So it will be interesting to see how everything goes in the next few days as we start working on more of the premie stuff again.

I am so thankful he is doing so well and is such an over achiever! It's so great! I know that God has been holding all of us through this because I don't think we would have been strong enough to endure this without knowing that He was in control over the entire situation.