More Progress

We have written before that less happens at the hospital over the weekend. However, since Charlie's body doesn't care what day it is, he continued his post-surgery progress. His incision is looking great and he was looking comfortable enough, so he was taken off of his pain medication. He also pooped and was started on feeds. The progression to feeding as we all know it will be a slow one (slowly up on milk while slowly down on TPN) and we will learn how well Charlie can take milk from a bottle. He is still on CPAP so that rather complicates things too. However, that sounds like I am rushing things. We are patient.

However, it is hard not to get excited. Both of our boys have a long, long road ahead of them. We know that long term effects of their start in life are almost certain. For now, though, we are really enjoying seeing how well Charlie is doing and how close he is to that big step - coming home. It's several weeks away still but he is leaping over those hurdles and we are loving it.

Henry has his surgery on Tuesday and the liver problems that he has had are likely to make his post surgery time a little more complicated. Poor Henry. However, he really needs to be put back together and he enjoys milk so much we just hope that he has a successful surgery so that he can get on with feeding and growing.

We had a great weekend with them. Lots of holding - including Aly doing a double-hold while I watched Aberdeen win the first of many trophies in their lifetime.

They are both on CPAP and both hating it. We hope that their lungs are maybe ready to fly solo soon (Henry needs a spell on the ventilator for his surgery first). 

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