One Month Old

Lucas is a month old today (it's also when I would have been 37 wks and full term)! Everything happened so fast it seems hard to believe, but it also feels like we've been in the NICU forever. He's lost a small amount of weight the last couple days so hopefully that will continue and some of his edema will go down. He'll get a couple doses of diuretics today to help pull off some water weight and make his breathing less labored. His white blood cell count has been staying in a normal range but lymphocyte count continues to fluctuate. Doctors were encouraged by his numbers this morning though, so that's good news. He's on his third day of Sildenafil (viagra) and so far we haven't seen a change in his chest tube output. It's actually gone up a little bit. We're still not sure how long he needs to be on this medication before we would see a change. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

Here's a sweet sleepy smile from our puffy little poop monster:

Hadley also made it up to the hospital again today and loves loving on her brother: