Bonding

Logan is NOW on the most minimal amount of assistance possible. By our surprise they took out his arterial IV line, which we were told would not be taken out before surgery. This IV was holding us back from holding him. We were estatic and we couldnt get our hands on him fast enough. We were able to hold him in a rocking chair and feed him. He was only getting 2mL of breast milk yesterday, but they upped him to 10 ml today. Hes a hungry boy!!

I was able to give him a sponge bath tonight. He loved it. Not really. Haha. I did though! Then he got to eat and we all snuggled for a long while. We have yet to see his eye balls, his face is swollen from all the fluids he is on, so its hard for him to get them open, but lately with the decrease of IV fluids he has been getting closer and closer. Today we were able to see that they are dark blue. As excited as I am I know they could change. Hes pretty funny when he sleeps, he makes a lot of faces. His most famous is one that looks like he is whistling. He reminds me so much of Corbin, its scary! We have compared pictures and they look like twins born 16 months apart.

We are excited to have all of this bonding time with Logan because soon it will come to an end. We will have to wait again to hold him and feed him, so we are taking it in as much as we can. The days are long, but they are going by quickly.

I just want to shout out to the most amazing person I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, Amber, my best friend. She flew in from Florida to stay with Corbin for 10 days while we concentrate on Logan. She is just amazing and I cannot imagine what this experience would be like without her here. Her being here has taken so much stress off of our minds that we are forever grateful, and forever in her debt. (I know shes reading this and cringing at every word that is missing an apostrophe, but my keyboard is too difficult to bother with it. I love you!)

The last few days have been momentous for us. It is funny how much you take for granted when you have a new baby. I never took pictures of Corbin eating for the first time, or when we very first held him. These small things that we just figure is normal is what I consider incredible with Logan. You dont realize how great you have it until youre thrown for a loop and end up with something different than expected.