For my birthday is to have both my sons home with me...but I will settle with Ethan being off oxygen :) (they are going to try to take him off tonight or tomorrow so cross your fingers please)
Tomorrow I turn 28 and I am so happy with where I am at in my life. I have an amazing husband, two little boys who are my everything, a house I call my own, a family who has been so supportive and friends who have dropped everything to help me out recently. I am blessed. I have to admit I was pretty sad earlier when I was thinking about not having Ethan home to celebrate my birthday with me...How can I be happy when he is at the hospital and not home with me? But as I was sitting there holding him today I realized that I am the luckiest mom in the world. I am holding my STABLE, THRIVING little fighter in my arms. Whether he is at home with me or not...I have him! I can't be selfish! He is getting stronger as the days go by and he will be coming home soon...I can't ask for more right now.
We have been working on feedings with him. He still gets most of his feedings through his feeding tube but he is learning with the bottle. We work with him everyday and he has the "suck, swallow and breathe" part of it down pretty good. We are working on building up his endurance right now. After about 5-10 min of sucking he gets tired...actually he falls asleep :) He stays up a little longer as the days go by so the occupational therapist is confident that he will build his endurance up quickly (praying this is true). Once he starts taking all his feedings by the bottle he will be ready to come home. The nurses told me that this can take a week to a couple weeks...but I am happy that this is his last step!!!!!!
I have been slacking, I do not have any new pictures of him. I will try to get some tomorrow :)
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