Calmer Waters

The past two days have been pretty good for Luke. The doctors are still trying to solve the lung inflation issues, which they were thinking earlier today could be pnemonia, but aren't so sure now, but other than that he's been very cooperative with his nurses and is making improvements. His blood gas levels continue to look good and they've been able to slowly reduce the levels on his oscillator, which is what we want to see. He also managed to gain another ounce despite not receiving any milk since last Thursday.
On Wednesday, we got to interact with him a little more than usual. I took his temperature and Stacy even got to give him a little soap-free sponge bath. Here's a little video of it (sorry no sound, I'm still getting used to the video editing software!).



Today his nurse Rhoda was telling us how Luke has made it very clear that being on his belly is his favorite. They have to move him from time to time, but when they move him off of his tummy position, he gets a little grumpy and lets the nurses know it. Since he was on his belly while we were there today, we got to see his little baby butt for the first time when the nurse changed his diaper in a "reverse" fashion. Since he's still very tiny, so was his little behind which looked more like just a little crack in his lower back. The nurse said premature babies' butts are the last thing to grow. He was also being a bit of a trouble maker. They had to give him an I.V. in one of his head veins which the nurses had already told us weeks ago they may have to do from time to time and it's really no big deal at all and looks much worse than it is. Luke, being the already curious little monkey that he is discovered the new tube and immediately started grabbing and pulling at it and we had to scold him while his nurse put a little pillow over it so he couldn't grab it anymore. We can already tell we're in for a lot when he gets older.