Slow But Steady

Well, the doctors were finally able to successfully extubate my little guy yesterday, but immediately put him back on bubble CPAP just to be safe.  He has been breathing comfortably and sleeping well, so thankfully, he no longer needs the ventilator.  After the rough time he had Tuesday, however, the doctors don't want to rush anything.  So he is still on bubble CPAP, and is not trying to bottle feed (or breastfeed) at all yet.  

As far as recovering from surgery goes, he is doing well.  He is no longer on morphine, and finally had the chest tube taken out, so that can begin to heal now.  He is on another medication to help keep him a little sedated so that he can rest and his body can get used to being off morphine, but they will be weaning him off of that soon as well.

Other than that, nothing has really changed, except that he is continuing to grow.  He is up to 8 pounds, and growing pretty consistently now that he is no longer on IV fluids and lasix and other drugs, and back to eating two ounces of milk every three hours.

Thank you for your prayers, I will continue to post updates. =)