Day 158

It's day 158 of our nicu stay. Ian continues to do well. He still has a bit of a cough and wheeze but doing better. He's still only getting to attempt bottles twice a day. The speech pathologist will not increase this to let him try more often (which makes no sense since he was drinking everything every 3 hours before the cold). Guess they'd like to drag it out now that we are so close...... yet so far. It went from "the end of this week" to "who the hell knows!". All thanks to the speech pathologist who is supposed to be helping but is making things go much slower. He is off of TPN now and all nutrition is thru formula (feeding tube). He's lost down to 8lb 2.5oz. He's awake alllllllll the time anymore with these bigggg brown eyes just looking around. He just lays there and stares at me lol..... it's cute. He's tolerating all of his formula and pooping regularly with no problems. :)

I haven't posted lately, so here's a pic of when Alisa came to see him on Monday (4-28-08). Alisa is a Respiratory Therapist from Mercy NICU where Ian was before this hospital. She was always so great with him (they all were) and she's such a sweet person. Ian always responded to her voice when he was a teeny guy. She was really surprised to see how much he's grown! She's having a little girl, so we are pre-arranging their marriage! LOL jk