No new pictures, just a quick status update. Connor is doing really well. He came off the Cannula (the little tubes in his nose) this morning, and weaning off of antibiotics so the IV may come out soon. The feeding tube is still in, but they’re not using it; it’s just for emergencies. At this point, he only needs to get the whole eating thing down, and he’ll be ready to come home. It may be as early as tomorrow (Thursday) morning, though he’s not eating quite as much as they’d like, so it may be a tad later.

Shannon and I went to the room last night at around 10:30 to have some family time, our first no-pressure just-the-three-of-us session we’d been able to have (not that we haven’t loved and needed everybody being there, but it was nice to have some “just us” time). Shannon wanted to do some Kangaroo Care, which is when the baby is laid skin-to-skin on the parent. So they lay him down, and put blankets over the two of them, and they both slept for almost two hours.

Most of today is pretty fuzzy for me: I’d planned to go home and get some sleep as soon as Shannon’s mom came back (she and Kelly slept at the house last night, I was on hospital duty), but there was always one more thing to take care of, so I didn’t get home until around 2:30. So between 6:00 this morning and 2:30 this afternoon, I was just trying to keep my eyes open, all while feeding him, doing my first diaper change, getting the swaddling tutorial, and so forth (like I said, it’s fuzzy). I’m about to go back in for the night.

It’s probably pretty fuzzy for him, too. His first 24 hours, he was really active, awake almost every time I saw him. Today, we can’t keep him awake to eat; he tends to fall back asleep mid-suckle. I know how he feels. I think he’s relieved to have the Cannula out (he hated that thing), and just exhausted from his first day.

Shannon’s been discharged from the hospital, but will continue to be there overnight in one of their nesting rooms, so we don’t have to shuttle her back and forth to feed and take care of Connor.  They’re starting the long process of learning to breast-feed together, which is kind of tricky since she doesn’t have any milk.  But he’s starting to figure out how to latch on and he’s starting to give a few good suckles, so progress is being made.  She’s feeling pretty uncomfortable, but otherwise doing fine.

But overall he’s doing really well. With luck, he’ll be coming home sometime tomorrow.

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