Update 06/07 thru Father's Day


In the beginning he was back on the high flow cannula and this was due to his surgeries the week before. Ryan was trying to get back to eating at 1 cc every 3 hours, but with residuals every time , the following day he was taking nothing by mouth. He was getting lots of sleep during the day and the night.


Then as of 5 am on 06/09 Ryan was on room air breathing all by himself, and the the doctors jumped up to 5 cc. They wanted to get his belly stimulated. I was a little scared because he went from nothing by mouth to 5cc's, but he has been tolerating his feeds and doing well.


Ryan started occupational therapy for nippling on 06/15. It was just an evaluation to see where he is at and what we need to do. He got his first ever vaccines on 06/16, handling them like a champ. We gave him a bath by ourselves for the first time on 06/19. Martin and I were nervous but he just kept still while we washed him up. Eyes open he was the best ever for us.


The best day out of all of this was Father's Day. Martin celebrated his very first. It was so wonderful to witness this, to see my husband hold his son ever so tightly, close to his heart. I know in my bones that Martin will be a great daddy to Ryan, they will be close. Of course we took pictures and captured this moment, first of many. Also, they made Martin this cute little card that had a picture of Ryan with a sweet poem. It had Ryan's little footprint and handprint.