Rowan is now 3 days old and is doing great. It took a few days for the affects of the anesthesia and morphine to wear off and he has been much more awake over the last day. He is now just taking tylenol and has transitioned to primarily feeding on milk instead of the IV solution he's been taking. His intestines seem to have woken up as well and we've had many dirty diapers to change already. His bandages are off and the back closure is healing very well. Stephanie has been able to hold him several times and he seems to really love that. We are expecting very soon to be able to remove the feeding tube and move to bottle feeding and he should be able to start laying on his side.
Stephanie is the envy of floor 11 looking fit for the cover of Fit Pregnancy. We are ready to go home but we decided to stay an extra day to give us proximity to Rowan. We'll head home Sunday morning and are very anxious for Rowan to come home with us next week towards the end of the week. He is required to stay on IV antibiotics for 7 days so the earliest he could go home would be next Wednesday. At this point we have no reason to think we wouldn't have our first family Christmas at home!
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| Napping after taking off bandages |
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| First chance to hold him |
Oh so glad to hear that everything is going well!! Been thinking and checking this whenever I can. Continued prayers and thoughts are with you guys. LOVE the picture of Steph holding Rowan, beautiful and Steph is SO happy. Love you guys
ReplyDeletesounds like things are going well! Praise the Lord! What a smile, that first time holding your son. love.
ReplyDeletejen potter
fellow sb mom