2 Months!

Eli is 2 months today. So for some perspective

Birth

 1 month

 2 months

So I'd say we're doing pretty well. We are still on track to leave on Saturday. He passed his carseat test. Which means he has to sit in his carseat for an hour without any desats.

Tomorrow we have as discharge conference with the doctor and have to watch some videos on infant CPR and car seat safety. Also, his pediatrician is going to stop by to meet him. So here are a bunch of pics in his santa suit. One of his nurses brought this in which was her son's 17 years ago that her father bought for him. I don't know if you can handle the cuteness that is about to happen.

The Final Countdown

So I've been slacking a lot on the blogging...been really busy... so let me recap whats going on. I think you may like what I have to say :)

Saturday I had my shower. It was a wonderful time fellowshipping with the ladies of my church family. Cindy did a wonderful devotion on mothers of the Bible. It was so good to see everyone and get a chance to catch up. Seeing as when we do get to church we have to take off pretty fast to get back to the hospital for me to pump/ feed the baby (sometimes we even have to leave early). Eli got lots and lots of wonderful stuff. We are soo soo blessed. Here are some pictures (photo credits go to Catty)

Auntie Kiki 

Ignore the weird look on my face an focus on the beautiful quilt Carey made. 

On Saturday the doctor said we need to get 48 hours of full feeds and then they start a 7 day count down for discharge. At that point he wasn't at full feeds and the doctor said oh it will be a few days before he gets there, i'd say he will be discharging in 10-14 days

Sunday morning we get there and low and behold he was 24 hours of full bottle feeds. Monday, it was very icy, so icy we couldn't get out of our driveway and Jon said we couldn't go anywhere. You know its bad when Jon says we can't go anywhere. *Flashback to huricane Irene and us being the only people driving down the Merit Parkway because the roads were "fine"* So I call to get an update and we are 48 hours of full bottle feeds. Staying home was good, I spent a lot of time making some phone calls getting a pediatrician and stuff like that. 

When I finally get to the hospital and talk to his nurse, we find out she talked to the doctor and the protocol is that once the baby is 48 hours of full bottle feeds, they look back and find when his last significant desat was and go 7 days from that date. A significant desat is a desat below 75% that occurs any time besides when he is feeding. He now gets to be off the monitor when he feeds, because we all desat a little when we eat so it doesnt count. So his last significant desat was on December 6th aka LAST FRIDAY 

SAY WHAAATTTTTT!?!?!?!?

So that means as long as he continues to behave himself, he is going home on Saturday!!!!!!!  He won't be having his hernia repair for at least a few months. So he gets to come home! So we are scrambling to get everything set. His room is kind of a disaster right now but that will be mostly fixed tomorrow. Leave it to Eli to be ahead of schedule....

 Jon has to work this weekend but after that he has a week of vacation which is kind of perfect how that all worked out. God is so good. So please pray that everything works out as far as the discharge plan and that we have a smooth transition home. Also, we are having some issues with the truck so pray for that all to get resolved and that Jon will be able to make the repairs quickly so he can spend as much time as possible with the baby.  Because how could you possibly want to be away from this cuteness for very long

Thursday/Friday

Thursday Eli got his eyes and ears checked. The boy can here, we already knew that but its still good to be reassured

This is what it looked like, he slept through the whole thing. His eyes look good as well, still some immaturity but he is only 37 weeks gestation. He will follow up with a pediatric optometrist in three weeks. ROP (retinopathy of prematurity) is something that is very concerning for preemies. Basically having too much oxygen or apnea can cause disorganized growth of blood vessels of the retina. This can lead to scarring and retinal detachment. It can cause blindness. Back in the day,  they would flood the isolettes with oxygen instead of using a nasal canual which caused wayy to much oxygen and led to blindness. This is how Stevie Wonder became blind (he was a preemie).  Anyways he hasn't been on much oxygen at all during his whole stay so he's looking good so far.

All the tests really tired the boys out.......

Today has been great. He drank all of his bottles so far..Anxious to see how he does over night. Weighing in at 6lbs 1oz

Got our Christmas tree set up. Tomorrow is my baby shower with my church family. Very excited for that!!

Every Christmas Jon's Grandmother would give him a Lennox Christmas ornament. He has quite the collection. This is one of my favorites

Jon's mom (Gramma) made our tree skirt and stockings. She embroidered the nativity on the skirt. I love it, it is so beautiful. Will put pictures of the rest of it later

 

 Can't wait for Eli's stocking!