Nine weeks 4 days

Wee! Evan's tracheal stridor is clearing up. When I came in this morning, Evan was still not sounding very clear but was much better than last night. He was a little cranky. Andrew waited for me to get to the hospital to leave. Every time he tried to leave, Evan's binky would fall out and he'd get upset. Andrew needed me to hold Evan's binky to keep him happy. It's so strange to hear Evan cry. His voice is still extremely hoarse which makes it even sadder to hear. He's usually such a happy baby.

We had our first snuggle since Monday afternoon today. He settled right in and was content. His feeds are increasing by 4 mL every 3 hours until he's back to his full feeds to 37 mL. As soon as he's at full feeds, his head IV can come out and hopefully the OG tube can as well.

The doctors also ordered for Evan to receive another dose of dexamethasone. Around 2 pm, Evan was moved to wall oxygen at 2 litres. He completely skipped over the high flow cannula! (He's a rockstar obviously.) By the time we got to the hospital, Evan was at 1 litre.

Evan was very cranky when we first got to the hospital this evening. He was just in the process of getting his vitals taken. He received the last of his eye drops which he took okay. He also had to have his pulmicort. Evan was not a trooper with the mask today. He fought and cried the entire time. Since his voice is still raspy it was extra pathetic. Once his pulmicort was done, we were able to pick him up to bottle. Woo! I didn't even have to convince him to take the bottle. He opened up and latched right on. He kept one eye on the bottle the whole time and sucked it down in about 10 minutes. Poor little man, he was probably waiting for me to take it away before he was full. After he slammed his bottle, we had a nice snuggle. He sucked on his paci and fell asleep. I tried taking his paci out of his mouth after he fell asleep but each time he would wake up and aggressively jam it back in his mouth. Little man knows what he wants.

Evan was also back in his big boy bed. It is so nice to see him back to where he was (minus the fact that he's on oxygen right now). Hopefully, he'll be strong enough to come off the oxygen in the next few days. I know he can do it.

My bink. If you take it away, I will cry and cry and cry.

Don't stop 'til I instruct you. Just keep it coming.

I've got my eye on you, just keep that milk flowing.

I added pictures to: Nine weeks 1 day old and Nine weeks 3 days old too!