Manic Monday...I wish it were a Sunday...

Cooper had a brain scan, an echo scan, blood drawn to check his bilirubin, and his NG tube changed today...poor baby! He was so pooped that he didn't even open his eyes when I held him.

He did get a new bed today. He's been in a two paned isolette but they moved him into a one paned isolette because he is regulating his own body temperatures. He'll move to a open air bed when he has 5 days of weight gain. I'm crossing my fingers that he starts porking up so that he can move to a bed that will make it easier to change his diapers and to interact with him. Its difficult to have to stick your arms through these holes to do even the smallest tasks with him or to just whisper an "I love you" to your baby. We did find out that Cooper has a heart murmur today but the cardiologist wasn't worried about it because a lot of newborns have heart murmurs and almost all preemies have one. They don't plan on treating it and they think that it will resolve itself. They just want to check it again before he goes home.

We're spending anywhere from 8 to 10 hours a day in the NICU. It's a strange world...but, thank God it's there...


Here's some pooped Coop pics...We got these pics during the few moments that his NG tube was being changed...