40 Days

Well we've hit the Forty day mark. Last year at Isaac's forty day mark we were celebrating the discontinuing of his CPAP, the move to an open crib and his first shot at a real bottle. This time around, Jonah has surpassed all his brother's marks: he's been in an open crib for most of this week, he's been off his CPAP for a good two weeks now and he had his first bottle experience a few days ago... and he sucked down 18 ML of milk on his first try!! I think Jonah might be the over-achiever of the family!



He's doing very well. he still gets fed by a tube that they pump his food in over 90 minutes but he tries a bottle once a day (always when I can't be there:( - he is also still on the nasal cannula but doing jsut fine. His oxygen saturation still drops whenever he eats, but he's been good about getting it back up on his own - we definitely see his improvement... And now he's just about 4 lbs 5 oz - what a hefty little boy!



He's been wearing some of Isaac's preemie clothes and we've been holding him as much as possible... The doctors, of course, won't tell us when he's coming home, but if I had to guess, I'd give it 3 weeks. But that's just me

Here's some recent Jonah photos:






Jonah wearing his brother's shirt and hat & looking at his brother's picture







Isaac has been a different story. He has been beside himself almost all day long for the past 4 or 5 days - very crabby and inconsolable. We are pretty sure it's because he's teething - or a reaction to some of his recent shots. We've also been working on changing his eating habits to get him off of his bottle and eating more table food and having regular meals. he's doing really well with it, but I always worry he doesn't get enough food. Plus he HATES his sippy cup - cannot stand it. Whenever you give it to him he gets mad and pushes it away or throws it on the ground. When you do finally get him to drink out of it, he does so with this really disgusted look on his face.

And to top it all off, this morning Cindy got him out of bed... covered in BLOOD! And of course he was perfectly happy to have blood all over his onesie, sheets, face and favorite bedtime toy. We could not figure out where it came from but think it was a bloody nose incident. crazy. He's also just crawling away everywhere, trying to work on pulling himself up past his knees. Oh, and he bit Cindy on the arm.











as for Cindy & I, it feels like we are faring a bit worse than the boys, we're just feeling very stressed and a little annoyed at life in general. There aren't many days where one of us doesn't snap at the other for something. Probably as a result of not being able to spend much time together. But we are doing the best we can and looking forward to a day when this is over and we can all be a family together for the first time.

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