Stable on Day 5

Boston's labs came back stable this morning. He is still not swelling at all (yay!) and is eating great, which are two signs that he is holding his own. He still has protein in his urine, but for now it is not causing any serious side effects.

His bilirubin was down today enough that we could take him off the spotlight and just leave him on the paddle. It goes inside his blanket next to his back and we can hold him while he is on it.

He is gaining weight and is at 7 pounds 10.5 ounces, up from a low of 7 pounds 8.7 ounces a couple of days ago. The norm is for babies to regain their birth weight within two weeks and he seems on track to do that.

Boston has had the same day and night nurses over the weekend, which has been really nice to have that continuity. His day nurse, Stacy, is awesome, and we have been swapping baby stories. She has an eight month old daughter. The normal ratio of babies to nurses is 2 babies to each nurse, but there are two babies on our pod that are critical enough to need their own nurse. A new baby was admitted today after being born at only 25 weeks and was assigned to Stacy. She said she could take her because I pretty much take care of Boston by myself. It is nice that he is so easy to take care of. I just do the normal things, like feeding and changing him, but I also know how to fix his wires and alarms in case anything goes off, and I can navigate through all of the machinery to get him in and out of his bed without any help. I can't wait until it is just him without any wires or paddles or masks or foot wraps.