My Son Is Finally Home!

This is excellent news. So stoked for you and your family! God Bless and enjoy!
Edit: this really would have been a homerun for my good news thread, but I agree deserves its own! [emoji6]

Great news skinsguy

Thanks guys! It's been a challenge since he's been home. The wife and I have been hammering out the feeding and changing schedules. I'm slowly getting used to it. My poor wife, however, she's not had an easy time with it. Tony wakes up around 2am and will not go back to sleep. She chose the 3am shift - so she's pretty much up most of the night. Her saving grace is that she's on maternity leave right now, and her mom comes over to help. So she gets some sleep during the day. I felt like a zombie yesterday at work, but today, I actually feel well rested. I went to bed around 10 last night, got up and feed Tony at midnight, got him back in bed before 1am, and was able to sleep solid until 6am. I feel I was pretty lucky! But once my wife goes back to work, I'm sure that will all change. I just hope our baby starts getting on a bit of a better schedule at that point.

I'm very happy to hear this!

Sorry to hear about the acid reflux. My little one had a bad case of acid reflux as well. Unfortunately you'll need to go through some trial and error to determine what will help them the best. For my baby, we ended up having to give her antacid medicine and give her rice cereal with her formula. The good news is that as she moved on to solid foods it got better.

Congrats!!

Our middle child fought reflux for a few years, but it took a while to get a diagnosis. Once we started her on the meds, she slept through the night with no more screaming fits.

Good luck!!

skinsguy, awesome !!! Sounds like you have one hell of a fighter on your hands with Tony !Enjoy just being a Mom and a Dad .:food-smil

Skinsguy how are things?

Skinsguy how are things?

Tony is progressing really well at home! This weekend marked two months removed from open heart surgery, and we were able to "handle" him a little more like a normal baby.

He hadn't had a chance to do a lot of "tummy time", which is where babies learn to push themselves up, roll themselves over, and eventually learn to crawl. So, he's a little behind in that aspect, but we're starting to give him tummy time each day and hopes that he'll figure it out. Right now, he's kind of like, "Uh, Mom and Dad, why are you laying me on my stomach??"

His weight gain has been a little slower, so we had to place him on some fortifier in addition to his milk to up his calories. We're also trying to get him to take at least 3oz of milk per feeding, but we're hoping to get him into taking 4oz on a regular basis. We're not quite at the point where we can allow him to sleep as long as he wants to during the night, so we're keeping him on a regular nightly feeding schedule. I'll feed him at 1am, and my wife feeds him at 5am. That seems to work out pretty well for both of us. I'm getting about 6 - 7 hours of sleep at night, so I count myself as lucky!

I'll try to post some pictures from his photoshoot from a week ago. He loves getting his picture taken! We're taking him back to Duke for his hernia surgery on April 3rd. He's got three hernias, one of which will heal on its own and won't need surgery, but the other two will. So, we figured we'd handle that on our long weekend off. He should be in and out on the same day, but it's still surgery. Once we're done with this, hopefully we're done with anything that has to do with a hospital for now! We've done our best in keeping him home and not exposing him to too many people during RSV and flu season. We're just about out of that season, so we're starting to take him out a little bit more.

I know I haven't posted anything on the Caring Bridge website for awhile. Been busy at work, and at work seems to be the only time I'm able to make time for Caring Bridge, lol! When I'm at home, I'm not in front of the computer much.

Tough start for all of you. Really makes one appreciate what has value in this life. Very happy to hear of Tony's improvement and Thank you for the update!

Glad to hear about Tony's progress. Congrats again to you and the Mrs.