Monday, February 28, 2011

Dax


Baby Dax minus the feeding tube!  YEA!
(He kind of looks like his Pops here--sleeping with his mouth open and all! ha!)


Isn't he precious?   I hate that ol' feeding tube in his nose!  (He hates it, too---he keeps trying to take it out!)  But...he may get to go home tomorrow!!  We're so excited!  He has to eat 60 cc's at a feeding to be able to leave the NICU and the hospital altogether.   For a while, they thought he was lactose intolerant because he wasn't digesting well.  So they took him off of breast milk and slowly added it back to his diet.  Thankfully, he wasn't.  And he's now digesting well.
His collar bone is healing nicely.  In fact, Zach told me that he's lifting his left arm on his own and isn't in pain.  They'd told us that by the time he was a week old, it would be healed enough that he wouldn't be in pain.  (Isn't it amazing how God has created us?)  And it actually happened sooner.  This little guy has had a rough start!
We're so grateful for all that God has done.  I know Mommy & Daddy are anxious to get their little bundle of joy home---and start being a family.  Thanks to everyone who has prayed!
WE'RE PRAISING GOD!!

3 comments:

Sandra said...

I'm so glad he's better!!

Janis Dietz said...

How is Mommy?

He's SUCH a cutie!

Kara said...

I'm so glad he's better and he is just beautiful. (yes boys are beautiful when they are babies). What a miracle. Those NICU stays are so hard, but I'm so thankful that we have those to help our little ones that need a little help.