Last fast Sunday we took Gage to church for the first time and gave him his baby blessing. it was such a spiritual moment when all the priesthood holders stood in that circle holding our son what we feel to be a blessing of a lifetime. It was amazing.
I just wanted to thank all of our friends and family that were here that day to help out and participate on Gage's special day. We love you all.
Gage finally at home sitting on the couch
Here is Gage in his car seat getting ready to leave the hospital and go Home!!!
OK so I know its been forever since I posted anything. Sorry. But we're super busy at home. Gage got discharged 5/17 as planned, and we have barely had a second to spare since! He has a rigorous schedule that involves little down time. He has to eat every 3 hours. So here's how each 3 hour block goes: the first hour is spent giving him the bottle and then sending the rest of the feed down the tube in his nose. The second hour I pump and get everything ready for the next feeding. And if everything goes totally totally perfect I might have 1 hour left to get stuff done, and he has a lot that needs to get done! He has plenty of appointments we have to run all over town for, which then makes it hard because the whole feeding/pumping routine has to be done on the go. So its a great big ordeal when we leave the house. It's like we're going on vacation with how many bags we have to bring!
But we are down one bag. His wound vac is gone!! The part that doesn't have skin is only about 2x2 inches! So now he has just a little gauze dressing (its a silvadene wet to dry dressing- for anyone who knows what that is) that we change once or twice a day. His belly looks amazing! And now I feel like we have a cordless baby! He's totally mobile! So now that the wound vac is gone he can do tummy time and a bath like a normal baby!
He hasn't made a whole lot of progress on his feedings. Still only drinking on average about 1oz so the other 2 ounces have to go through his tube. And he has really bad reflux, like I'm talking bad. So that makes it hard. They put me on a lactose/soy free diet to see if that would help (and cuz they found a little blood in his poop) and it has, a lot! And pretty much everything has soy in it as some kind of preservative. So pretty much I eat chicken, fruits, and veggies. And my mom and Trev's mom are the best mom's ever so they each found bread recipes that don't have milk and made me homemade breads that are so stinkin good!
