We have so many blessings to be thankful for this year! Our day has pretty much centered around our favorite thanksgiving blessing.
It is amazing to think back at my 475 gram fragile baby boy. He has truly fought an amazing fight to spend the holidays with his family. He weighed in tonight at 1760grams! That is 3lbs 140z!!
Today our little man celebrated his First Thanksgiving and his Three month birthday!!!!
This month has been truly amazing! Our little man has been up to quite a lot!
He was weaned off of his oxygen only a week one week of receiving his final mls of blood! He has impressed us all at how well he is breathing! He still has periods where he breathes faster than he should but his has done a tremendous job at staying off of his oxygen!
He has gained more sufficient control over his eyes this month. He is now tracking objects and will look toward verbal stimuli. He is very expressive with his eyes. They are still blue for the time being! His last eye exam didn’t go completely as we’d hoped. He has now developed a grade one retinopathy. He will now begin weekly eye exams to keep close watch on his eyes. His doctor still said that he has some of the best eyes that he’s seen and that with his week of increased oxygen behind him that his eyes could get better. He said sometimes the eyes tend to get worse before they correct themselves and get better.
In this last month Ryan has celebrated Two Holidays! He had his first Halloween and his first Thanksgiving. Unfortunately Mommy felt like she missed them both but Christmas she promises WILL be a different story!
Ryan is becoming stronger before our eyes. He can now pick his head up for long periods of time to look around. I’ve even caught him with his head, torso, and lower extremities lifted off of the bed! He is also attempting to master the art of scooting/crawling. As long as he has something to push off of he can scoot himself around his isolette!
This month Ryan was moved to the Final unit he must stay in before he can come home!!! He was able to spend his First two nights with Mommy and Gammie taking care of him this month! To us that was the biggest blessing that the staff could give us this Thanksgiving week!!
He has made great strides in his growth this month. It was a hard fight/struggle to get to 2-3lbs but once we made it he is surprising us daily at how fast he is growing!! Its crazy to think that within a few days I will have not only a 4lb baby boy but a baby boy who is ready for an open crib!!!!
In this third month of Ryan’s life we have finally felt that we could ‘somewhat’ breathe a little easier!! It is so amazing to look back and see where we started and how far he has come! Keep up the good work Munchkin!!!
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