March 7 - Nursing extravaganza!

Oliver is a nursing fool! The lactation consultant came today and watched him nurse and was very impressed with his skills :) We used a scale to weigh him before and after he nursed to get an idea of how much he is eating and within 24 hours he built his endurance from being able to eat 20ml to 72ml (a full feed!) He is a little rock star! We also got to give him his first REAL bath today. He looked a little confused about what we were doing to him when we first dipped him in the baby bathtub, but he didn't cry-in fact, I think he liked it :) When Sean and I are there we are able to walk around with him completely unattached to any monitor. It is so much easier to snuggle a wireless baby!

His platelets dropped to 10,000 this morning- he will have the platelets checked again at 4:00am. Besides that he is doing great! His bili continues to slowly decline and he received his second dose of chemo yesterday evening. He seems to be tolerating it well so far and has not had any of the nasty side effects (fingers crossed). The Dr.'s have been talking a lot about letting us leave the hospital with Oliver. It sounds like this could happen as early as next week! As exciting as this is, Sean and I are also nervous about taking our baby, with zero immune system, out into the world! If (or should I say when) we leave the hospital we will have to stay within an hour of Seattle Children's until they give us the thumbs up to go home...so far we have not been given a timeline for when this could be, as it depends on his labs and how he responds to treatment.

Well, I am heading back to the hospital to spend the night with Oliver...love to all!