Day 13 - 100%

Goal for the day: rest and be cute!

Milo had his contrast study today. The nurse said he was 100% normal in his lower GI tract and we will find out tomorrow about the upper one. His drains are all showing normal output as well meaning there is no more mystery liquid being created. Milo was displaying more pain signals yesterday so today they started alternating Tylenol and Morphine (a tiny baby dose), and he is doing much better. He is even starting to open his eyes again - something he hasn't done since before his surgery a week ago.

Today, I got to hold him skin to skin for the first time. It was incredible and felt like exactly how I was meant to hold him. We sat like that for over 2 hours. Near the end he got very squirmy and we thought he might be starting to feel some pain from lying on his stomach tubes but the nurse was very astute and thought that he was just getting overheated. We uncovered him and he calmed down as he cooled. He is so very small and loves to have pressure on his back and his arms and legs fully contained, it was hard for me to do all these things for him and still leave any surface area free for him to cool down.

First skin to skin experience with Milo

You can kind of see my short hair

I got a hair cut today. We were going to go really short but the hair stylist who has a lot of experience with curly hair suggested slightly longer so that it would be less upkeep. In the end, my hair is just long enough to pull back into a pony tail and it looks great. Shelly is going back there on Friday to get a trim and highlights.

This is the best/only place to eat lunch but people always think we work here since we are the first thing you see when you exit the elevator on this floor. Nope, we don't know how to get to delivery.