Aden's First Week Home

We are please to say that we have all successfully survived the first week home. Aden is really striving and enjoying having mommy and dad all to himself. Since he has been home he has gained a pound and is really becoming an active newborn with all his facial expressions and accompanying gurgles and coos. This week we had our first doctor's appointment and was an angelic child for the doctor- we were so proud. The doctor gave him a clean bill of health and said he is doing exceptional as a preemie. At home we have our routine of three hour shifts of eat, sleep and poop but a few minutes a day there is play and learning. Aden is very fond of himself in the mirror and reaches out to the handsome devil. He is also learning to hold his own pacifier as he is demonstrating for Pap Pap in the photo. Mom and dad are doing well considering the new sleep cycle. Mom is fitting back into her pre-pregnancy clothes and still hopeful that some day she'll find the time to exercise.

Aron is getting better everyday. He is struggling a little with apnea which is the only thing holding him from being discharged. Unfortunately, every episode sets his release date back five days for observation. The doctor says that all we can do is wait for him to grow out of it. This waiting game is very frustrating to Alex and I because we get excited that he is coming home and then he will have an episode and has to stay for another week. It is really pulling on the heart strings to be so close to having him home. We all miss him; especially his brother.

Aron (01/27/09)