September Already?!?

Sorry I haven't been blogging much recently. Lets just say that trying to make time for two kiddos in two different places can make life crazy busy...but its worth every second. 

Tomorrow is Ethan's due date...September 2nd! Are we really here? Why isn't he home yet? The two questions I asked myself alot today and probably something everyone is wondering. He is so close but he had a little setback a few days back. Through out his stay at the hospital he was on a couple different medications and now that he is so close to coming home they decided it was time to start weaning him off some of them.
He is on something for his acid reflux...he will be coming home with that.
He was given caffeine (this is to help premature babies from having apnea spells) and was weaned off of that a few days ago.
The next medication was something for the fluid on his lungs (something else common with preemies). If there is fluid sitting on his lungs it makes it hard for him to breathe so the medication helped him pee it out. He has been on this medication since day one, so his kidneys never had to work to remove the fluid. They stopped giving him this a few days ago and since then the fluid came back...which was making it hard for him to breathe well which put a hault to him feeding from the bottle. He was just getting way to tired. We believe that it is slowly starting to fix itself because for the first time in about 3 days he was wanting to feed from the bottle today and took his full feed. Crossing fingers it stays this way! This set back was so discouraging for us because for days before he was doing so well with drinking his full feed from the bottle and they really thought he would be home before this weekend. It wont be happening now :( He is pacing himself great now...which is good cause that was his problem about a week ago.

Other than that he is just getting bigger as the days go by...he is about 6lbs 10oz now. We are also in the process of trying to move him back to the hospital where he was born. They only have 1 baby there vs the 100 babies at Millers NICU, so he would get the one on one care he needs right now to come home. His nurses now are one to three babies. We can't be there 24/7 for our baby so we need to make sure that he is getting held and cuddled like we would...when a nurse has two other babies to take care of he just does not get that cuddling. Just waiting for the insurance to say yes or no...we will see. The other hospital is alot closer to Jon's work so it would be so much easier for him to go to see him. All I know is we CAN NOT WAIT for us to get that call that he is going to be discharged! His parents need him home but most importantly his big brother needs to meet him!


Here are a few pictures of him from last night...

Look at those cheeks and that crazy hair. I tried to brush it to the side but it just wanted to stand up :)