Colby, tube free!
The Brothers Hilling
A Colby close-up!As George Costanza from Seinfled once said, "I'm Back Baby!" Well first let me say sorry! Ever since we stepped foot in the door its been a non stop whirl wind of diapers, feedings, medicine, pediatricians, cardiologists and very little sleep. We needed to do some serious Colby focusing and the blog is one of the things that ended up falling thru the cracks. So for those of you who were following religiously I'm really sorry. But it was all worth it, every bit, as Colby is doing awesome. He finally seems to be a normal baby. Feeding tube free, Colby is loving life. He's smiling, starting to coo and starting to get on track with all of his normal developmental milestones. He is doing really well with nursing and takes a bottle any time that is needed too. But he is currently not taking any supplements and having great weight gain. Last week he put on 9 ounces. He's up to 9 pounds 15 ounces. He's also growing in height as he just reached 24 inches. He started out at 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 21 inches. His incision his healing perfectly. It looks great. His incision did get slightly infected a couple weeks back but he got some antibiotics and it cleared right up. He also had a few sutures pop out that U of M had to pull out but nothing too major. We took him to the cardiologist on Friday and they said he was doing great. They took him off his two stomach medicines, Zantac and Reglan and left him on his two diaretics, Lasik and Aldactone. But he only has to be on those for about one more week. Then he'll be medicine free, finally. I'm waiting for U of M to give us honorary nursing degrees after all the meds we've given over the past month and a half. The cardiologists mentioned that Colby has a small heart murmur, but its nothing to really worry about as hopefully he'll grow out of it. If not a procedure would have to be done in the future but again its nothing to be concerned about right now.
Cooper is doing really well and has totally adapted to having his new brother home. He does great with him. He's always kissing him and trying to hug him, although its often that we are telling him "gentle, gentle" as Coop doesn't quite grasp the concept that Colby is a baby and not a tickle-me-elmo doll. :) Coop is talking more and more each day and likes to tell us "Baby Crying" when he hears Colby.
I'll be updating the blog on a regular basis, I promise, again I'm very sorry for the month and half break. Please keep checking for updates, thanks everyone!!
