Picture Tag

Here you go Bec! And its not one of Jares work pics yay!

This is Branston I think 4 days after he was born. I'm so glad all those tubes and IV's are gone!


File 3, picture 9 and tag 5 friends. I tag Allie, Becky C., Becky O., Katie S., and Jenni.

He's home!!!

Well, finally Branston and Braylee are sleeping at the same time and I have a moment to let you all know that BRANSTON IS HOME!! He came on the 8th and of course we are SOOOO glad he's home! He had to be sent home with a feeding tube which I had to put in (it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be) but we didn't need to use it because he was doing so well eating on his own so at his Dr. appt. the next day we got to take it out! :-) He's doing better than ever with his eating and taking even more than the minimum the dr's wanted him to take. He's such a sweet baby :-) I'll post pictures next time the 2 kids nap at the same time hehe I know I always say that and then forget...but I'll really try to remember this time haha!

Branston not in the NICU anymore...

Well he's still at Primarys but he's no longer in the NICU. He's now in the infant section. I have mixed feelings about it. He used to have a nurse right there at his side, now he's alone in a room :-( Like a regular hospital room. But it's good because that means he's doing better and since we have our own private room we can bring the kids up more! Today of his 60 ML of milk he took 32 ML from his bottle :-) he still has the feeding tube so that whatever he doesn't finish from his bottle they put in the tube. I guess now it's just the waiting game and making sure he's reached his goal of how much milk to take by bottle and gaining weight. Today he's 7lbs 9oz :-) and can you believe he's already 2 weeks old!?

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New Cribby hehe...and he needs your vote today!

So Branston graduated from the warmer bed to the awesome metal cribby :-) They do that when they are able to maintain their temperature and a few other things. He's been on the fentanyl only as needed but it's sad cuz if he goes all day without it he'll suddenly get uncomfortable and inconsolable. They've doubled the amount he's able to eat and he's doing pretty well! I think it probably just hurts his tummy a little. But he's not a spitter upper yet so that's good! I'm hoping & praying that things just keep progressing so little my little man can come home!!
P.S.
Today is the last day to vote... for the silly bump pic! I just couldn't pass up the chance to win stuff for baby bear so puh-puh-please take a second and go to this link and vote for number 17! :-)

http://www.971zht.com/pages/babywatch/vote.html

We cracked the code!

Come to find out it really was just the taste of the tasteless pedialite! They mixed it with my milk half and half and he took it! I got to feed him two bottles yesterday. They said they might try straight milk today so I'm excited to go see how he's doing with that :-) He's still a little funny about latching on the the bottle. He'll latch and then poke it around with his tongue for a minute. But he's definitely getting the hang of it! We also got to see Branston wearing clothes for the first time, just a onesie. I'll post a picture later of his awesome "Flashdance" look. He has the pick line IV in his arm still so they couldn't put both arms in his onesie. Therefore he had the awesome top off one shoulder look going on HEHE :-)

The feeding....

Come to find out they actually give our lil guy pedialite (sp?) first before trying milk. And once he does well with that then they'll try the milk. When we got there to see him today the nurse was sitting in the rocker with him and he was sleeping. She said she'd been trying to get him to take the pedialite but he kept spitting it out! It's the flavorless kind so the flavor shouldn't be a problem. My guess is he's so used to his binky and not having anything come out, it's probably just weird to have a leaky binky! He's going to have to get used to swallowing and everything...even though it's only been 6 days he seems to be set in his ways...for now :-) I tried giving him the pedialite and his bottle had 6 ml. He spit out about 4, but while he was sleeping I was tricky and got him to take about 2 ml without spitting it out. Hey it's a start!
And I just want to say that I love the nurses at Primary Children's. They always answer all our questions in detail and let us help with taking care of our little honey in any way that we're able to. Branston couldn't be at a better place with better Dr's & nurses to take care of him right now :-)