Desmond's Big Day

Dezi's been making slow but steady progress over the last few days. His oxygen is at 21% and the surgeons, happy with his progress, recommended taking him off of CPAP for short spurts. He's also been receiving breast milk through a tube which, if tolerated, gets increased every 12 hours. So hour one of feeding, the little guy got 1 cc of milk per hour through a continuous drip. After 12 hours, he received 2 ccs, etc. Today, the nurse introduced the bottle to him and he seemed a little startled and unsure what to do with it in his mouth. However, his pacifier suck resonates across the NICU so we are hopeful and confident that he'll soon be into eating.



The best part of the day was seeing his little face without anything on it impeding our view. We haven't seen him like that since the glimpse we got right after birth. Like his mommy, he has giant eyeballs. And in most photos I took of him today he looks a little like a deer in the headlights but is irresistable all the same.