One Week Old

Tonight at 5:22pm, Crew will officially be one week old.  It's hard to believe we've been at this for a week already.  He's making great improvements daily, but the doctors are being extremely cautious with every step they take.  They're going to try to wean his Morphine drip again today.  The Jet ventilator  settings are being weaned as well.  I think they will turn the Nitric off today sometime.  The chest tubes are still draining, so they aren't going anywhere.  He had his first poop after the enema last night . . . whoop whoop!  He's still peeing well.  The doctors have slowed the amount of fluid they are giving him in order to control his fluid loss and electrolyte balance.  He's still not being fed any breast milk.  But, he's getting intravenous nutrition and fats through a constant drip.  We really don't want to see weight gain until he's lost all this extra fluid.  Daddy got to give him a kiss last night too.  Aunt Neen just wasn't there to capture it on film . . . I think they got an iphone picture.

Aunt Emily made Crew a banner with his name on it.

His first poop.  I know its kind of weird to post this, but I'm a nurse and I think its awesome stuff.

His chest x-ray yesterday morning.  Looks great.  You can see the chest tubes on both sides.