Logan's Journey

On my way home!! I am so excited to finally be able to write the post I have been waiting 2 months for...our little man has come home!!  The past week has been quite an eventful one but in the end we have our baby at home with us.  Logan made a ton of progress the last week in the hospital, moving to 8 bottles a day on Friday the 6th, moving off the cannula on Saturday the 7th and finally coming home exactly 2 months after he was born and 3 days after his original due date on Thursday, December 12th, weighing in at 7 pounds 3 ounces and 20 inches long!!  It is such a crazy and wonderful feeling to finally have him here with us and for the first time in 3 months not to be at the hospital!  There is this perfect and beautiful baby that has joined our daily lives and we couldn't be happier, I just love having my little family finally all together!!   The first night home was a little tough, I think I was just a little Mommy paranoid, checking every coupl...

Love this sweet boy!! Hi everyone, I apologize in advance for the delay in getting an update posted.  Things here have been very busy and I just honestly haven't had the time to get on a computer!  Over the last week we have had some good progress (mainly in the last day or so, another reason for the lack of updates).   As the title of this post suggests, we hit a big milestone yesterday, our little man has now DOUBLED his birth weight and is weighing in at a whopping 6 pounds 6.5 ounces as of today.  It's amazing to think how far we have come and thinking of him at half this size seems like years ago, he is really starting to become quite the chunker (or at least we think so).  I just love his little belly and his chubby cheeks, perfect for lots of Mommy kisses.   You talking about me?? Besides the weight gain we have also moved up to 4 bottles a day as of yesterday and so far we are doing really well.  We had them move the feeding tu...

I am enjoying my change of scenery but this home thing sounds much better! We have officially made the move and Logan is now a resident of the Intermediate Care Unit!  We were moved over on Tuesday morning and the nurse gave me a call around 9 letting me know he was there.  Initially they wanted him as close to the nurses station as possible so when I got there he was bunking up with a little girl named Racquel (I later found out her Mom works in the same building as me...small world).  It was definitely a little bit different and the first day I wasn't so sure about this new living situation however it is growing on me.  The nurses are much busier as they now have 3 babies per nurse (instead of 2) but it is much more quiet and you have a little more privacy and freedom to do what you want with your baby which is nice.  There are also a lot of the same nurses in the Intermediate area so at least a lot of the people that are so used to him and have seen him ...

Hey everyone, I finished my first bottle today!! Logan has officially finished his first bottle and we couldn't be more excited and proud of our little man!!  On Friday and Saturday I tried giving him his bottle and we did ok but only could get down about 23cc's and 34cc's out of the 51cc's he needed to complete to have them add another bottle.  So after some discussions we decided it would be best to let the pros give it a try at least until he gets to about 4 bottles a day and it worked!!   Mommy's still getting the hang of this but she will figure it out! On Sunday, we were there at our regular time and he was still a bit sleepy, we decided it might be best to just go ahead and hold him and let the nurses determine the best time for him to take a bottle.  He did great during our holding, did some Kangaroo Care and the whole time he took his pacifier and seemed very interested in sucking which we were hoping meant he was starting to associate that with hi...

So sleepy! The last couple of days have been pretty productive and exciting for us.  Our little man has made some great progress!  He has moved down to level 2 which means he is now on the low flow nasal cannula instead of the high flow and as of today he has tasted his first taste!   I think I like this new method of eating, it is so tasty!! Today was a big day and we had our first bottle feeding and I think that Logan did great.  The nurse had to do the first feeding and when we started out he had a couple of moments where he wasn't breathing as well as he should but after about 5 minutes he seemed to have it figured out.  He was able to take about 2/3 of his normal feeding (35 out of 51 cc's) and on a scale of 1 to 10 the nurse said he was an 8 for his first time.  From here on out we will be able to give him his bottles and I can't wait to see how he does with us.  They said that there is a chance they will add another bottle tomorrow to...

As of today, we are 37 weeks and Logan is officially a full term baby!  This is when the doctors say that things really start kicking in for the preemies, lets hope this includes our little man!   I love Mr. Froggy and practicing for my upcoming bottle feedings! Over the past couple of days we have continued to make some great progress!  We are now up to 5 pounds 5 ounces, he gained an ounce just in the last day!  Also, as of this morning when I was at the hospital visiting, Logan has been moved down to level 3 on the cannula (we moved to level 5 on Friday and level 4 on Saturday)!!  This means we only have one more level to go before we are able to start the bottle feedings, hopefully that will be Wednesday or Thursday.  According to the nurses, he will start with one bottle the first day and then they will add one bottle a day until he gets to 8 bottles and is able to digest all of them.  They have warned that this could take a little while as t...

The title of this post says everything although you may not realize what it means...we have finally hit 2 very exciting milestones related to 5 & 6.  Let me break them down for you... I like 5 & 6! As of yesterday morning our little man is now weighing in at 5 pounds 1.7 ounces!!!  That means in just one month he has grown almost 2 pounds and is now the size of some regular term babies (albeit small ones).  Also, now that he is 5 pounds he can get in a carseat safely (which means we can take him home as soon as everything else is ready) and he is almost growing out of his preemie clothes!   Now on to 6...as of Wednesday afternoon they were able to finally move Logan down on his High Flow Nasal Cannula from level 7 to level 6.  I was a little worried how he would do on this but honestly he is doing better than when he was at level 7.  When I held him on Thursday he did the best he has ever done, he didn't drop his vitals too many times and f...