No IVs...Big Progress!

Dinner was good tonight! We had pasta, salad, bread, and cookies waiting on our front porch for us when we got home (thanks Jen!). Our sweet church family has dinners planned for us through the end of October. We are so grateful to have one less thing to think about while we're shuffling back and forth to the hospital to see our baby boy!

Ryder is still making good progress. He gained a little bit of weight as of last night. He's now 3 pounds, 1.7 ounces. (He lost a little from a few days ago, which was to be expected.) His milk intake has been increased and they took him off of IV fluids today. He should finish his antibiotics tonight and then the IVs can come out! We're so glad that his little hands and feet can be rid of them. They only last about a day in his tiny little veins, so he's been stuck a bunch of times in his first week of life!

He had a follow up head CT today to look at a small bleed on his brain. The doctors have not been worried about...it was very small and they told us that if they scanned most full term babies, they would have the same thing. We should get the results sometime tomorrow. We're still praying that God will heal anything that was there and the scan would show all clear.

Jeremy went back to work today. It was rough on him, but Ryder and I had several visitors to keep us company in his absence. It's about time to head back to the hospital now so Ryder can visit with his Daddy!




Here's some pictures of the first time we got to hold our sweet baby boy. I've gotten to hold him two more times since this first time and Jeremy should get to hold him again tonight. We are loving that time with him!!!