Sleepovers!

I started back to work Monday, so I have been staying the night with Watson at the NICU and making visits during the day. It's not bad, particularly now that we have a nice big room, and I love being close to him all night. It's harder this time around since we have another child at home, but we are making it work. Yesterday I went home after work to see Sophia and came back up to the hospital after she went to bed. That is a little tiring though. Today Nick met me and we had a lunch date in Watson's room, and then for dinner, he picked up Sophia, and we had dinner near Vandy. It worked out well, because we got to spend time together and I got to see Sophia, but I didn't have to rush home and back. We've really been trying to keep Sophia in her normal routine. She has no idea what's going on, and when we bring home Watson it is going to be a total shock for her. She loves looking at his pictures on the iPhone, but I'm pretty sure that she doesn't understand that he's real!

Watson continues to do well. He is up to 39cc/feeding, and starting today, they want me to breastfeed more often. He has actually done really well with the breastfeeding, and the doctors would rather get this established rather than push the bottle too much so not to confuse him. They will now feed him his feeding through NG when I'm not breastfeeding and then supplement the ones that I am breastfeeding based on how long he nurses for. He has gained weight and tonight he weighed 4lbs 12ozs...almost back to his birth weight!

Last night they started weaning the temperature on his isolette and he has been maintaining his body temperature well, so this afternoon they popped the top. If he continues to maintain his temperature for 24hrs, they will probably try him in a regular crib tomorrow! Another step closer to coming home!

Overall, the news continues to be good, and he is just feeding and growing. We hope he'll be out of the NICU in a week or 2, but it all depends on his progress with his feedings. I'm sure he'll figure it out on his own time, and we'll be patient until then.