Never know what a day brings.....

This is how Little G looked today - 6 days old. Still wondering what's going on I think!

A lot can happen within a week.  Jennifer and I never knew how long it would take Brett to progress.  Today we went to the hospital just happy that he did not need any help breathing.  When we got there, we found out that they but a bag on his ostomy and he was filling it!!!  I was instantly reminded of Bill Cosby's skit about the poopie.  We were so excited to see it.  This was a big development for him because once he did this, he could be moved to milk.  While we were there they gave him his first meal!  They pump it from a syringe through a tube that goes through the nose and into the stomach.  They do it through the nose because it will help him breast feed in the future if he does not take food through the mouth now.

Since they were going to set this up, the nurse asked if we wanted to hold him.

Well.....DUH!  YES WE WANT TO HOLD HIM!!!  

It was truly amazing because we did not think it would happen so soon.  We took many pictures and a short video. I hope you enjoy them.

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

The picture at the top is of Gantt wanting to see what was going on.  The rest are of Brett and there are two videos.  One shows Jennifer holding Brett and the other one shows what the room looks like.  I scan the room a little bit and you can see Gantt moving around in his isolette.  He has the lights turned on him because his bilirubin levels were too high.  (for those of you that want to know what Jennifer tells me......"Please do not do that again".  I had just previously taken a picture and did not realize the flash was on.  Ooops!  Brett did not like that at all.)