Weekend Update

Saturday:
Saturday was a lazy day for Luke. His nurses had actually propped him up on his right side a little bit and he seemed more than comfortable despite repeatedly laying on his left arm. When we arrived he was napping pretty soundly and we almost felt bad disturbing him. He did wake up for a little while, but seemed pretty sleepy the whole time. We did get to see one great thing though - what appeared to be his first little baby smiles! It was a little hard to tell and probably pretty hard for him to do with both a breathing tube and feeding tube in his mouth, but it sure looked like it to us. We managed to catch a little one on tape...you be the judge:



Sunday:
Even before our visit with Luke on Sunday, we received some good news. The early results of Friday's tests came back and his white blood cell count had stablized and there was no sign of infection in the first 24 hours of the tests. They will check again at 48 hours, but the early indication looks great. When we did arrive, we were surprised to see that Luke appeared to sprout a large amount of blonde baby hair, seemingly overnight, on his head and "sideburn" area. We couldn't help but laugh and called him the "little wolfman".
Luke also got to see his Auntie Amber and Grandma "Swannie" one last time before they headed back to Arizona and gave one of his signature "thumbs up" to tell them thanks for taking such great care of his mom and dad while they were here. Stacy also was asked by one of the nurses if she wanted to change his diaper but chickened out and left it to the professionals (for now).
The other good news of the day was they have increased his milk intake by 1ML and lowered the setting on his oscillator as well, so he can try to do more of his own breathing. The "so-so" news of the day was they may have detected a small heart murmur which could indicate the PDA valve re-opened, but we're hopeful that is not the case and the doctors will continue to monitor it.