Well Parker had quite the exciting morning. When Henry and I got there to feed the little man this morning we had just started feeding him and a code was called for some other baby. They had to move the baby into Parker's room which made no room for us to feed. So we went to a different room and finished our meal. Because everyone was busy with the code I got to snuggle Parker for about an hour (including his feeding time.) At that point they decided he was healthy enough to move to the intermediate nursery! This is one step closer to going home. It is still a part of the NICU but it is only for babies who just need to gain weight and or finish up light therapy. It is much calmer down there and nice to be out of the offical ICU. Parker also got to move into a normal crib that most newborn babies are in during their stay at the hospital. He took it all in stride. His feeding this morning was not best but for all the interruptions he had he rocked it.
At noon Henry came to help feed Parker and about 2 minutes into the feeding we felt and heard quite the rumble from our duders and sure enough he filled his pants again. I don't think we will ever be so excited over poopy diapers. We met with a developmental therapist who watched him eat and did some exercises with Parker. She was very happy with how well he was doing and will give us some exercises to do with Parker when we take him home. There exercises will be to increase his muscle tone and help prevent any type of long term problems.
Parker gets his bilirubin level drawn again tomorrow morning and that will determine if he gets to stop his light therapy. The nurses and doctors think it will be normal and that he will be able to stop the therapy tomorrow but we shall see what the number say. His pooping habits are still not where they would like them but he is making improvements.
The nurses all think he is adorable and comment on how cute is he. I agree with the nurses and doctors but I think I have a bias opinion. :)
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