Day 5

Gibson had a pretty good day today. He is still on the bili lights to we couldn't hold him very much, but his counts are still coming down, so hopefully he can come off those lights and we can hold him again soon! We are missing being able to do Kanga Care with him. His weight went down 10 grams last night so he's still right around 5 bls 2 oz. He's had some more struggles with his feedings--he's been spitting up quite a bit. They found quite a bit of air in his belly so they have now switched him to the Dr. Browns bottles which help with air. The nurse tonight said that if he continues to have issues spitting up they will have to lower the amount he gets at each feeding (50mL) and he will then have to work his way back up again. He might also need his IV back in. That is discouraging for us as it is a step backward. He seemed to be on such a fast track compared to Layla--having his IV out much quicker, switching to an open crib after a couple of days rather than a couple of weeks, taking as much in a feeding now that took Layla a couple of months to get up to--it's hard to now to see him have set backs that will prevent him from coming home any time soon. Don't get me wrong, I'm so happy he's healthy and doing well and I now it could be so much worse, but we just want our little guy home! It just always feels like part of our family is missing--when we're at the hospital with him we miss Layla and feel bad that once again she's dumped off at a baby-sitter (not that she minds--she has lots of fun at Grandma and Grandpa's, cousin Gavin's and Grampy and Gigi's) and when we're home with her (which hasn't been too much--we've been busy with running errands and such) we wish he could be home with us too!! Hopefully next weekend he'll be close to coming home! There are currently three other babies in the special care nursery with him--he is the youngest--one is close to coming home (he was born a week before Gibson) and the other two I don't think are quite ready either. So they are all in the same boat as him. It's encouraging to see the one getting close to going home!

He loves his tummy and it helps with his digesting issues. He was sleeping like his sis today with his knees tucked in and his little buns in the air:).

He spit up twice today all over this glow worm bed so he enjoyed another bath today. The nurse today ran the back of his head under the water to wash his hair and he just loved it. He looked very relaxed:).

Feeding with mommy yesterday...it's funny how nurses comment that they can tell we've dealt with feeding a preemie before. It's nice to get reminders from the nurses on different techniques to try to get them to drink successfully, but it's amazing how much of it really does come back too! Seems like just yesterday we working on feeding with Layla:).

Burp time!

Layla and Joe having snack time while I pumped (their pump room is also a kitchen).

Layla checking out the strange glowing baby...