Will's VERY Exciting Day

As you know, Will has traveled a pretty rough road during his short life. Today he had two major milestones: 1. He is off of C crap again 2. He ate his first bottle. We were so excited that our sweet baby boy has accomplished these two things.  There were some days that we didn't know if he would ever get here.  We made sure to take lots of pictures to capture his big day. 

Our little peanut is sound asleep.  There is a weighted beanie on his back to provide a little bit of pressure to help him settle down.

Will drank from his first bottle with help from nurse Jude.  He did AWESOME and took 35 ml out of the 55 ml he gets every three hours.  The other 20 mls were gavaged.  He LOVES to chew on his fingers, thumb, fists, sleeves, a pacifier and anything he can get his mouth on.  Therefore, we thought he would be able to handle a bottle and we were correct.

I look like my little sister in this picture.  They are starting to look more alike and the staff is noticing too.

What happened to my hair?

Hitting the bottle hard.

Snuggle time  while he got gavaged.  I think that I spent three hours snuggling him today because I was making up for lost time.

My turn to try a bottle with Will.  He held on to his tubes like that the entire time. He is being fed sideline which is a technique used for feeding preemies.  He took another 35 ml for the second bottle.  We pray that he continues to do well with the bottle and off of CPAP.

I don't know how to rotate this picture that was taken with Mark's phone.  Will and I did lunges, squats and swayed back and forth for about two hours today. He was so happy and so was I.