Scarface

So Jack decided he was tired of all the nurses saying how cute he was. He said, "I'll show you!!". Now he has a wonderful scratch right across his nose (Say hello to my little friend). We immediately cut his finger nails when we saw the damage he could inflict on himself. When he gets gas pains he grabs at his face, and I think that's when he scratched himself. Other that Jack is doing well. No episodes and he's still gaining the weight, now up to 6 lbs 14 oz. Tomorrow night we are rooming in the hospital. They turn us loose to take care of Jack by ourselves. Of course the nurses are right outside our room should we have questions. We are resting up tonight because when sense a little sleep deprivation coming tomorrow. Between worrying about Jack and him grunting with his gas it will be interesting (we're a little nervous too).

The plan that I've heard is that they are going to train us on the apnea monitor. Have us do a sleep in night and then Jack will go back to his nursery pod for one more night. If things all work out he could be coming home on Thursday. We will keep knocking on the wood and keep our fingers crossed that our little guy will be home this week.

Happy Valentine's Day

Jack just keeps on getting bigger and bigger. He gained another ounce yesterday and is at 6 lbs 13 oz (I guess growing is what babies do). He did his carseat challenge today also. Basically they just test to see if he tolerates sitting in it without problems for 1 hour. He passed with flying colors, the nurse said he just fell asleep in it. We got a telephone call from the patient coordinator and found out that his apnea monitor will be in tomorrow. They will give us all the training to operate it tomorrow, then we will do a in-hospital stay with Jack overnight on Tuesday. It just us & Jack in a room with all the necessities and no monitors (except the apnea monitor). Obviously if there is a problem (which there will not be) the nurses will come in to assist. Then we are hoping for a release later this week, around Thursday or Friday.

Jack is still episode free since last Thursday morning and he is eating like a champ. We've been told that Jack is the most popular baby in the NICU right now. We won't tell him though, cause it might go to his head. I also included a video of his latest bath time. I meant to do it on Friday, but forgot, and the connection out in the trailer is too slow to upload anything that big. For those that can watch it...enjoy.