9-4-10

Oliver was here for his first Iowa Hawkeye game. The Preemie Project gives each child a fleece Hawkeye blanket and a knitted Hawkeye hat. We tried the hat on him and it is so big for his head it wouldn't stay on. Shawn and I also got to hold him this morning.

See the hat laying beside Oliver. It is so big compared to him.

Oliver has had a watery left eye that started yesterday that is now red and swollen today. Dr. Dagle states that it's probably from a blocked tear duct so they started him on an antibiotic eye drop. They also gave him a pacifier last night because he was so used to having a tube in his mouth and he loves it. They increased his feedings to 40ml today every 3 hours and even tried a drop of breastmilk on his pacifier so he would know the taste of it and associate a full stomach with oral eating. He loved the taste let me say, he would close his eyes and suck on it then once the taste was gone he would open his eyes and look at the nurse as if he was saying "that was it? I want more."

Today the doctors decreased his morphine drip to 22mcg/kg as well. That is pretty much all the changes they made today. This afternoon after his feeding, we changed his poopy diaper and then he went again once we got the clean one on. If that wasn't exciting enough we repeated this 3 times each time a new diaper was put on him. Finally we thought okay maybe mommy shouldn't change it but maybe daddy should. So, Shawn changed his first diaper with the help of the nurse.