Well... a lot has happened since yesterday...

The nurses fed me for the very first time since I was born! I was absolutely euphoric. My tummy was full for the first time, ever. When my mommy came in to see me, she said I looked so satisfied. I didn't get sick or anything. The nurses started out with 5 cc's, and then they increased the amount to 10 cc's because I was able to tolerate it so well. The nurses gave me just regular formula for my first couple of feedings because they forgot that my mommy has been providing her own milk for me... and that there is already a freezer full of it!

The nurses took the bar thing away today, and they turned off the heat lamps. Now I get to lay on my side instead of flat on my back, and I get to be all cuddled up in blankies. Although I love the blankies the nurses have me bundled up in, my mommy is going to bring in some of my own blankies! Ever since I was born, I've just been laying under those heat lamps without any blankies at all. My nurses are watching my temperature very closely to make sure I can maintain my "own heat." I think I can do that.

I'm still on the ventilator. Evidently they have to wean me from the thing. They can't just take it away and leave me on my own. My lips are chapped from having my mouth open all the time because of the tubes and because of the ventilator, so the nurse put some vaseline on my lips. My lips feel so much better. The chapping was annoying. The ventilator is still breathing for me about 30% of the time, and the rest of the time it's just me doing all the breathing. I almost forgot all about that part of being post-utero. Pretty soon it will just be me doing all of my own breathing. I think I can handle the challenge especially if they keep feeding me real food instead of pumping my little body full of nutrients and stuff. I'll just keep getting stronger and stronger and bigger and bigger. I've already gained at least 5 ounces!

Even though the nurses took away the bar thing, my body is still working to get all of my tummy back into my belly. The doctors don't know if they really want to do the "paint and wait" thing. The reddish medicine they have to put all over me has iodine in it, and the doctors don't really want me to absorb all that stuff. What the doctors want to do with me changes just about every day. One day I think I'm going to have surgery, the next day it's the "paint and wait," and now I just don't know what they want to do. I hope they make up there mind soon because I really do want to go home!

My mommy and daddy went to a Penguins game last night after my mommy spent all day with me. They needed to get out. I love it when they are here, but I do sleep an awful lot so it has to be just a little bit boring.

My mommy is still trying to get more pictures published. I don't know how long that will take!