Norman is doing great. After spending the night waking up his Abba every three hours, and gulping down 40ccs of milk, we upped him to 50 ccs today at 7am and he just now polished off another 50ccs. He no longer has the zonda wire (the wire straight to his esophagus) and now all he has left are his stitches, a single IV wire just in case, and my personal favorite, four emergency starter wires connected to his heart. Its a strange phenomenon to consider the fact that my 4 week old son is walking around with 4 wires hanging out of his chest. Consider the possibilities. Can i charge my phone from it? Can i connect him to FM radio? Can we attach him to an app that will allow us to travel through the arteries and veins inside of him? The future is here now, and its connected to a four week old.
Alas, when he leaves they will detach the wires. Then the future will be behind us.
He is behaving very well, Baruch HaShem, we have no complaints. The No Gagging Allowed rule that Fraidy and I enacted yesterday is being respected moderately, he is trying his best to not let it affect his eating.
On Shabbos we met a mother who's daughter is checked into the hospital for some treatments. On Friday night she brought the baby to The Old Apartment and we mentioned that it was very nice that the hospital let her take the baby out. She looked at us confused and said: "They didn't let me, I just took her out without asking." Ahhh... Israeli Parenting. These same mothers will grow up to the be the ones that will walk into a war zone in order to bring her soldier son food for Shabbos. Its starts with birth. So yesterday Fraidy mentioned that she had run to The Old Apartment to get the stroller and some food, and I asked how she did that, assuming that she would never take the baby out of the hospital. She told me she took the baby with her. I paused. Asked her to repeat herself. She laughed, and said she didn't take the baby, she asked the nurse to watch him for a minute, as he was sleeping in his cage. My heart restarted and I complimented her on the practical joke.
The current issue now is weight gain. They want to see him gain weight, and the last weighing showed he lost a few grams. So now we hope that he upps his weight, keeps eating well, and Gd willing, we'll be home before we know it.
Stay tuned.
And now this blogger is going to a take a nice long nap. Till next feeding time. Man, being a nursing dad is tough!
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