Today's Update

We were blessed with another great day! God is good! Eli's feeding have been upped to 2ccs every three hours. The feeding have been up and down. Sometimes he digests most of his food, sometimes he doesn't. We are told that this is normal and may just be that he has to poop. He has good bowel sounds and his stomach isn't distended so we are pretty optimistic. But please pray especially for that. He's doing very well with his breathing and is tolerating being off the CPAP just for care with no problem. Eli has been pretty feisty and active all day. He lets us know when he is not a happy camper with his strong cry and angry faces! He was put on his belly and managed to roll himself onto his side. Still sucking on the binky very strongly. Big highlight of the day was that Daddy got to hold him for the first time today. So he spent about an hour and a half in our arms. He also had his umbilical arterial line removed today, that's one less line in and possible area for infection. Over then next few days they will also remove the umbilical venous line and then put in a central line. Once this happens we can start skin to skin! On Friday they will do a brain scan to check for bleeding. Ok time to pump then bed for this mama..I'm exhausted! Will try to check in earlier tomorrow. Please keep praying for our lil guy!