Emerson Eats

Emerson being held by Mom this morning before eating.



Emerson has had a good first two days. He was up a lot on Monday night because he was hungry. We didn't get much sleep between Emerson and the nurses (random 5:00 am blood draw from Emerson, that probably could have been done at noon) and doctors coming in ultra early. I remember being up at 1, 2:08, 3:15, 5:02, 6:26 and then sleeping til 8:28. Melissa was awake more often than me. That said, we are having a nice morning with him. He is just eating an awful lot with whatever Melissa can produce.

Emerson had a lot of visitors on Monday: Grandma Sue, Donovan and Hayden, Aunt Laura, Uncle Scott, Nathaniel, Aunt Karolyn, Uncle Jason, Carson and Sonja all came on Monday! He got held and was really sleepy, but generally he was content and happy.

This is definitely different than when Donovan and Hayden were in the NICU and we would go down and stay while the nurses attended to them in their plastic huts. I ran into a dad who has a daughter in the NICU. She was born at 35 weeks. We talked for a bit. He and his fiance are going through the same unknowns that Melissa and I did back then--when can we take the baby home, will everything be ok, why does the baby have the tube there and there, when can we hold the baby . . . . I think it was good for him to know we went through the same things and everything ended up fine.

This morning, the doctor said Emerson was a little yellow and we should keep an eye on him and have his friend Billy Rubin checked out. He has a small fever today, but that went away and should not stop us from taking him home later today.
I am going to go install the car seat.

Following is a summary of Emerson's day and night: Eats, happy, sleeps, rudely awoken by nurses or blood drawer, cries, eats, sleeps, cries, diaper change, eats, sleeps, cries, examined, cries, eats, sleeps. Repeat.

Laura printed and gave Donovan and Hayden each a picture to take to school of them and Emerson. Apparently, Donovan and Hayden showed it a lot and were just thrilled. That made both of us smile. Thanks Aunt Laura.