Little Jacob had a much better day today. We went up this morning and he was all ready for breakfast. He fed extremely well and did so for about 40 minutes. We came back down to the room and weren't here even 20 minutes before they called and said he was hungry again! He is still off his IV and Oxygen and his respiratory rate is continuing to improve.
I headed to the house today and was greeted with a nice thick layer of frozen solid ice in our drive way. I spent a few hours chipping through that. It was great because I could barely get the car in. Luckily I was far enough in that I wasn't sticking out into the street, but I wasn't going anywhere else. By the time I was done, I had soaked through two shirts and the winter coat I was wearing. I was glad that I went home and found it yesterday though instead of when we bring him home. I grabbed us a few extra outfits while there and got back to the hospital around 4:00.
This time I was greeted by my little boy. They had released him from NICU and Jennifer had just finished feeding him. As I mentioned before, he has been really hungry. He would sleep just a little while before waking back up to eat. I later found out from the nurse that the antibiotics in his system make him an eating "madman". So that should wear off soon. Jen will be feeding him throughout the night. We are still waiting on the results from his cultures which will come in at 1am. If those are negative, then we should be able to go home tomorrow!!
Not many pictures today I am afraid. I took 2, but you can't really see him in either. Since we were in our room, I did more video instead. I won't be able to put that on here till 1) we are home and 2) until I have time to download, edit and format it. I am sure when we head home though there will be plenty of pictures to post!
UPDATE: It is now a little after 5am. I took Jacob down the nursery around 9:30 after being fed and he was returned to us at 11:00, ready for more grub! Jen fed him and I changed him and put some fresh clothes and linens on him and returned him to the nursery. We figured he'd be back shortly, but to our surprise we woke up around 4:15 and hadn't seen him in a while. I headed down to the nursery and Jacob had been sleeping since I dropped him off. He had just started to stir when I arrived in fact. So were we glad for the few uninterrupted hours of sleep. He is eating pretty well as I type. The cultures came back negative too so we will hopefully be out of here before lunch!! Negative cultures also resulted in them taking his IV needle out of his hand. They had left that part in just in case. He was very happy to be rid of it.
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