Charity is home from the hospital and doing much better but very tired. Tomorrow we plan to go back to be with Anderson. This will continue (back and forth to Peoria) until the baby is able to come home. He is breathing fine on his own. He was under the bilirubin light today for jaundice but the numbers are coming down. They plan to begin feeding him his mother's milk tomorrow. He is and has been receiving nutrition through an IV in his tummy. This will gradually switch over to the bottle. If he gains weight from the milk and can thrive without the added assistance of the IV, he will be able to come home. When he is able, he will get his milk from his mother without the bottle. The earliest he will be able to come home is likely next Monday. But they don't know, because they don't know how he will respond to the feedings. Today we got our first pictures of him with his eyes open. His nurse said he has opened them a lot, but not when we were there.
Yesterday, Glenn and the children got to see him for the first time. Glenn had the flu was told by the hospital staff he couldn't be near the baby when he was born.Yesterday, he wore a mask and his doctor had him on an antibiotic and said he is no longer contagious. (We hope.)
Because of the flu, Glenn couldn't go in with Charity to have the baby (c-section) so I was there with her instead. I got a couple pictures on my cell phone I could text to Glenn.
We are glad Mother and baby are doing as well as they are. ----Carol
