Archive for August, 2006
Sarah got sprung!!
Sarah got broken out of the hospital today, and it is with very mixed emotions that we leave. On the one hand I am very happy to have her out of there, but on the other, its heartbreaking to leave without our son.
One thing that is making it a bit easier is our [...]
Apparently, all babies lose weight after being born. Well, preemies are no different. Jack weighed 1001 grams when he was born, but on Tuesday he was down to 890 grams. Its normal for a preeemie to loose between 10% to 20% of their weight, so we weren’t too worried. He also broke the all important [...]
I missed Sarah holding Jack for the first time early this morning. She got to hold him “skin to skin” or what they call Kangaroo Care for a few minutes.
Here are some pictures of what we did for the rest of the day.
This is where Jack hangs out all day.
This is the machine that [...]
Day 4 – early morning.Today is Sarah’s (my) first post to the blog, and frankly the first time I’ve felt up to it.
We’ve been in the hospital for two weeks today. This is one of 3 nights that Arch hasn’t slept here and it’s amazing how much his presence comforts me, I can’t sleep.
I have [...]
Today is going well so far. I guess the thing is, that if nothing bad happens, then it’s a good day. We spoke with Jack’s Dr. today and he says that Jack is doing better that expected. The thing that we are learning is that all of the Doctors and nurses end every sentence with [...]