My Baby is Amazing!

Parker is a rock star! He has had a really good day today! He has still been a bit fussy, but I think it's more related to a gassy tummy and fighting sleep than being in pain. He is so afraid he is going to miss something and never wants to go to sleep - even on Tylenol with codeine! We weaned him off the morphine last night and onto the Tylenol with codeine. Good thing too, since the "mule" as I call him, (because he kicks so much and so hard) kicked out that hard-fought-for IV this morning. That meant he had to start drinking more by mouth and no more morphine, since it can only be given intravenously. I was determined there was no way they were going to stick him again after our experience last night, so he had no choice but to start drinking.

I was able to give him a good bath this morning and clean him up. He had a lot of dried blood in his nose that I was able to get cleaned out. We were able to put his own PJ's on him since we didn't have an IV anymore. You could tell it made him feel so much better, and he looked like my baby again.

He's still refusing his bottle and just does so-so with the syringe, so we've had to feed him with a straw. When we go out to eat we sometimes will dip a straw into water then dribble it into his mouth. Well, he loves that and now it's the only way we can get him to drink. It takes forever to feed him, but it's working, so we're keeping at it. He did eat a whole container of applesauce this afternoon for us, so that was encouraging!

Dr. Burstein came by to see us at lunch and said if Parker continued to drink well we could go home this evening if we want. We're going to see how the next couple of hour go, but we will probably wait until tomorrow morning to go.

We took Parker on a walk this afternoon to the lobby to get a change of scenery. There's a really cool donor recognition wall that has a background of a virtual aquarium. He loved looking at it as well as the Christmas decorations. Here's some photos from our outing. Will post more soon!