Our first family picture. Unfortunately, none of us know how to open our eyes. :)
Isaac is still on the CPAP--thank goodness. Despite how excited I am about that, it is so incredibly and unexpectedly annoying. He constantly looks so uncomfortable and is always trying (and often succeeding) to pull it out. He's got these prongs jammed up his nose--not pleasant I'm sure.
Trying to get set up to hold Isaac. I had to hold the oxygen up to his face until we could get the CPAP set up.
Finally--a picture without tubes all over his face.
Whenever I see pictures of myself, I think, "Man, I look tired." Go figure.
"If it takes my whole life--I won't break I won't bend.
It'll all be worth it--worth it in the end.
I can only tell you what I know,
That I need you in my life.
When the stars have all gone out
you'll still be burning so bright."
---Sarah McLachlan
Isaac is doing pretty well. Unfortunately, it's a really big deal to take him out of his isolette while he's on CPAP. It's so much more difficult and inconvenient (for the nurses and Isaac) to do skin to skin care. I'm totally bummed out because I love it so much. Today was the first time he was stable enough on the CPAP for me to hold him and it really stressed him out instead of helping. So sad. He started freaking out and we had to put him back in. It made me so sad to know that holding him made it worse instead of better.
Hopefully it will get better as he's more stable on the CPAP. We'll see. Everything else is about the same however. He's still a little over 3 lbs. His head is growing rather nicely too which the Dr said is a really good sign of proper brain growth. They are still giving him 3mls of milk every 3 hours for the next few days--then they will try to bump him up to 20 mls. He's still got inflammation in his lungs from the CMV, but the CMV seems to have run it's course for the most part. We won't know for a long time if there was any lasting damage.
Isaac continues to be a little freshy--giving the nurses and us a run for our money. He seems to have inherited his Mama's tendency for strong opinions. :) Uh Oh.
It'll all be worth it--worth it in the end.
I can only tell you what I know,
That I need you in my life.
When the stars have all gone out
you'll still be burning so bright."
---Sarah McLachlan
Isaac is doing pretty well. Unfortunately, it's a really big deal to take him out of his isolette while he's on CPAP. It's so much more difficult and inconvenient (for the nurses and Isaac) to do skin to skin care. I'm totally bummed out because I love it so much. Today was the first time he was stable enough on the CPAP for me to hold him and it really stressed him out instead of helping. So sad. He started freaking out and we had to put him back in. It made me so sad to know that holding him made it worse instead of better.
Hopefully it will get better as he's more stable on the CPAP. We'll see. Everything else is about the same however. He's still a little over 3 lbs. His head is growing rather nicely too which the Dr said is a really good sign of proper brain growth. They are still giving him 3mls of milk every 3 hours for the next few days--then they will try to bump him up to 20 mls. He's still got inflammation in his lungs from the CMV, but the CMV seems to have run it's course for the most part. We won't know for a long time if there was any lasting damage.
Isaac continues to be a little freshy--giving the nurses and us a run for our money. He seems to have inherited his Mama's tendency for strong opinions. :) Uh Oh.
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In that picture without the tubes Isaac actually looks like he's getting a little meat on his face there. 3 lbs already...Wow. What a beautiful boy. I think he looks just like you Jenn.
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