Ya ya I know...I'm a slacker...

Sorry I have just been sooo tired. All good stuff to report! Eli has basically spent the last two days eating, sleeping, pooping, and cuddling. His feedings right now are at 10ccs every 3 hours and as long as everything goes well at the next feeding time he will be upped to 12ccs every three hours. This schedule is called "double bumped" where they increase his feedings twice a day. They are shooting to get him up to around 20ccs every 3 hours and once they get there, we can stop the TPN. This means that we would only have to keep his IV in until he's done with his antibiotics. He had a repeat Echo to take a look at his heart. His murmur is really loud which probably means that the PDA is very small and about to close or he might possibly have an infection in his heart. The PDA should close up on its own and if he has an infection in his heart, he would have to have 6 weeks of antibiotics instead of the 10 days that he has to have now. Doc thinks its pretty unlikely that he does have an infection in his heart, his vitals are great, but they have to thorough for these lil guys! So will let you know when I know about that. As for his breathing he is doing great on CPAP and is cycling off of it for three hours at a time to a regular nasal canula. He did great yesterday on the nasal canula. Today he had some desats while I was holding him but then once he got back into his nest he was fine. They are trying him in regular clothes and swaddled instead of being nakey all the time (Kiki I know you are happy about that) to see if he is starting to self regulate his temp. So far so good. Tomorrow I'll have to bring in the preemie clothes, the pic I got was of him in a newborn size, and he's swimming in it. And he now weighs.....3 lbs 8 oz!! Yesterday he was 3 lbs 4 oz, they are happy with one ounce a day. What a fatty!! He even has a couple extra chins going on right now!!! So cute! I'm going to sleep at home tonight. It'll be his first night here without one of us here with him...but I'm beyond exhausted and have to take care of myself to keep making the milk that this kid keeps drinking like a mad man! Been cuddling with him a lot :) Started reading Peter Pan to him, the real version, he seemed to like it was making lots of faces while I was reading. Lord of the Rings next, the kids gotta get a jump start on all the good books. Getting lots of good food to eat. Zach made us chocolate chip cookies that were awesome and Trish dropped off some pasta yesterday that was sooo good. We are so blessed! Please pray for Jon's family. His grandmother is not doing well and Gramma is on her way down to Florida right now to be with her.

Here are some pics...the nicer quality ones are from yesterday I think...He already looks bigger today than these pics

 swimming in newborn size clothes, you can see one of the extra chins peeking out though!

the nurse says his cone head will go away..."you don't see anyone walking around with a cone head" His hair is also a lot lighter than in this picture. He's gonna be a blondy

love this picture