Blog Entries

We got to the hospital a little later than usual today - we had to make a pit stop at Babies-R-Us...have a feeling we will be making lots of pit stops there now! Thankfully its right down the street :...

This morning I started driving again! YAY! Amazing how something so small can make me feel a little bit more of normalcy. I didn't want to push it to much, so I ran a few errands before we headed to t...

Kelly, the daytime nurse, did give one bottle feed to Emerson today before we arrived at the hospital. He took about half of the bottle, and they gavage'd the rest. The nurses are feeding Emerson base...

Today Grant stayed back at the house during the day to catch up on some of our long to do list! Big THANK YOU to Uncle Doug for coming over to help him, and Aunt Cyndi for driving me up to the hosp...

When we arrived at the hospital today, Dr. Boxwalla was in Emerson's room along with the daytime nurse, Nikki. Dr. Boxwalla explained that we did have room to increase Emerson's calories, and since hi...

So there is a dry erase board in Emerson's room, and Grant decided to spruce it up the other day. He brought in some color markers and put the blog website for the nurses, Emerson's birth weight, adde...

Today was another great day!! We arrived at the hospital around 2:30 and Emerson was swaddled and fast asleep. Nikki, the daytime nurse, updated us that Emerson had gavage feedings all day because ...

We arrived at the hospital a little bit earlier than we usually do, but still thought we missed Emerson's 2pm feeding. The nurse actually bottle fed him at 10am so the time of his feedings were delay...

When we arrived at the hospital today, the nurse said that Emerson took 10cc from the bottle and the rest was gavage feedings. This seems to be the pattern for the last few days. Emerson was in a ...

Yesterday left me pretty emotionally all night and into this morning. I think I may be seeing signs of postpartum depression. I know that given the circumstances there is going to be days that I'm jus...