Baby's first bowel movement

Hello everyone,

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!

Today's update is pretty good. Early early this morning, approximately 12:30am, I had my very first bowel movement. And then a couple hours later, I had another one. Mommy was pretty excited because she was worried that the milk in my tummy had no where to go when it was digested. But now we know that my little insides do work for sure. The nurse explained that it may take me a little longer to reach those little milestones that babies reach, but that's only because I'm a lot younger than most babies.

I got to have 3 CCs of mommy's milk for breakfast this morning, but I'm skipping lunch because my tummy is not done digesting my breakfast.

I had another blood transfusion today becaue they keep taking blood from my little body to run tests and stuff. The good news is that because I'm so little, one donation will last me a month. Mommy and daddy said they would be donors, but the doctors said that wasn't always safe. So the doctors found a donor who matched really great with me. I don't know the person, but the doctors are planning to do a Directed Donation, which means I will only get my transfusions from that one person.

Mommy tried to find out if there was any way to let the donor person know how grateful her and daddy are, but everything has to be confidential so no one can tell her. She said a prayer in the hospital chapel yesterday and added the donor to her prayers as a way of saying thanks.

The doctor lowered the setting on my ventilator again. My chest x-ray and blood gases showed this morning that I'm doing really good. The doctor says that we still have a long road a head of us, but every little decrease in the machines means that I am learning to support myself more and more.

I'm gonna have daddy add some pictures to this later because when the doctor came to talk to me today, he had bunny ears on. He's not my real doctor, but he's the one that works when my real doctor has a day off. They are both really nice and like to make mommy and daddy feel better by explaining that all of the complications that I am having right now are very common for premature babies. I like the doctors because they always finish talking to mommy by saying, "he is doing really well for how young he is." I think this makes her feel better and then she doesn't worry so much. Daddy on the other hand says that he's going to worry until we're out of the hospital. When I grow up, I wanna be just like my daddy!!!!!

Time to rest.
Happy Easter!!!!!!