Baby update

First of all let me just thank everyone for the support, phone calls, posts etc that we have gotten over the past few days...trust me it helped more than you will ever know. I am really sorry we havent gotten back to everyone that has left us messages, but we will get to it over the next day or so.

On to the good stuff.

April is doing well and will be getting out of the hospital and coming home tommorrow. She still is sore (as to be expected) but is getting around pretty good.

Aiden also is continuing to improve. He went off the ventilator on sunday, and off of the CPAP (next step after a ventilator) today. All he is on now breathing wise is one of those little nostril things that they put on people after surgery and getting just a little extra oxygen than room air has. April got to hold him briefly this morning, but he still gets a little too riled up by all the stimulation. So holding him is off for a bit, but we have been able to touch him in his crib. They still are giving him his light therapy (tanning sessions). Big news today is that they started giving him a little bit of milk directly to his stomach. That is big because this afternoon they didnt think they would start that for 2 more days. He seems to be taking it well, so hopefully he will start fattening up a bit. He has been sucking on his pacifier nicely, so who knows, maybe they will start bottle feeding in a day or so.

We both are a bit bummed that we cant touch / hold him much, and that we will get to go home while he has to stay. But, the progress he has made in the past 2 days has been worth all the hard times and worry, and will just make the day we get him home all the better. We will get some pictures up on the blog within a day or so, and now that most of his tubes / wires /etc are being disconnected we can maybe get a pic that shows how cute he is.

Thanks again everyone.