Oh, So Close

Just a few more steps! We went in this morning not knowing if we'd be taking him home tonight, Tuesday or ???. It turned out to be "???", which means probably Wednesday.
The reason they pushed it out another day is that he's been doing better with feeding without the assistance of oxygen. What they hope is that he'll continue to show that he can eat without any oxygen and not de-sat for the next 48 hours and if so, they won't send him home with us on oxygen. We will probably still have a monitor for him, just to be safe, but it would be nice if we didn't need to worry about the oxygen tank.
He also got his "Synergis" shot today, which is a form of booster shot that helps his body fight RSV, which for most adults is just a cold, but for micro-preemies like Luke, it's a lot worse. The shot does not completely immunize him, but it helps him fight it and lessens the severity if he ever does get it.
On Tuesday, we'll be doing a 12-hour "Care by Parent", which means it's just us and Luke in a small hospital room and it's up to us to do all the work. We feel pretty confident with him already, but we feel it's a good practice run before he comes home and we can become more familiar with giving him all of the medications and vitamins he still needs to be given.
We'll let you know how it goes and if Wednesday does become the magic day.