FIVE

Guess who hit a new milestone today?!?!? Justin is 5 lbs 1 ounce!!! He's huge (to us at least). He's had a great day. They did an EKG on him to check him heart and everything looks great. There is a valve in our hearts that closes usually a couple days after we are born but preemies need medicine to close it. Sometimes the medicine doesn't work so they were just checking to make sure it was taken care of. Everything looked good. He is getting his lasix once a day for the time being because he is still retaining a little extra water. It's not to the point where it sounds like it is in his lungs but they also don't want it to get to that point either. He will grow out of that soon too. His flow was turned down to a quarter-liter today and he is not requiring any more O2 then before. He is doing great and they will continue to ween him down and then wait for him to get to room air. At that point they will be able to take him off his cannula. His feeding practice is going well and he did his best ever today. We will practice more tomorrow, probably twice. Justin is also getting a bath tomorrow morning. Jason has the day off so we will head down before his noon feeding and help with that!