Day five has been another great day of steady improvement. Corin’s temperature is holding fine, so it seems he will be done forever with the incubator. He has been digesting more and more food, more and more of which is momma’s milk. So they have been steadily increasing the amount of food that he is taking in and decreasing the amount of fluid they have been pushing in through the IV. That transition has gone so well that when we returned from our lunch break today, his IV had been removed. So now we are able to see all his hair (mostly blonde) and his whole head. It is great to see the number of wires hooked up to him slowing dropping off.
His breathing is still a little fast, but the main goal now is to slowly decrease the supplemental oxygen he is receiving (which isn’t much). Once all of his breathing issues have cleared up, we will move on to actually eating meals from a bottle or right from momma.
Kristi’s mom (Grandma) and Christian’s parents (Pop and Lola – which is Filipino for ‘grandma’) came up to visit tonight. They all got quite a treat when they saw that his IV was taken out. The big treat came when they all got their chance to sit and hold him. The rules are that only parents and grandparents can hold him, so they can keep some semblance of order in the NICU.
Mommy and Daddy are doing pretty well. We are using our lunch breaks to take care of the things we hadn’t had a chance to complete, and to get some rest. We are getting an okay amount of sleep, although Kristi still gets up several times a night to pump. Her biggest discomfort right now is the soreness associated with her milk coming in. She’s been able to give him a few meals of all breast milk, and then they supplement with formula when we are not here. Once her milk fully comes in, the goal is that she will be a full time milk-maid and will have reserves to feed him when we are not at the hospital.
Thanks so much for all of your warm wishes and thoughts. We truly feel and appreciate your love.
CK&C
as i went into my yoga class last night and we were into doing asanas, the instructor said forget everything about today and i said IMPOSSIBLE! i want to remember everything about holding sweet baby corin for the first time! you guys make a beautiful family! much love, mom
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