Day 10 - Samuel Update

Today Samuel was given a blood trasfusion for a few reasons. He is anemic, was looking pale, and the doctor and nurses felt that once he had a blood transfusion it may help his entire system to function better as well as his bowels. He has had a lot of heart rate drops the past couple of days (which we have been told is very common) and so the blood transfusion will hopefully help with that too. He is doing well still considering and we are still praying for him to have a bowel movement and for him to continue to get better. They haven't fed him in a couple of days because of the lack of bowel movements but hopefully the blood transfusion will help.

Yesterday I did "skin to skin" with him. It felt different than I expected. It was more ackward just because he is so tiny and fragile. I imagine it will get better with time but it still was very special.

Here are some more pictures from the last few days.

Cuddling with his teddy bear.
Believe it or not he breathes on his own. The nurse had to redo the nose tape so we got to see his little face even though his nostrils are larger than they'd normally look and his poor little mouth has a feeding tube down it. But it was neat to see and realize that the cpap is there just to keep his aveoli in his lungs open, it just helps him out a little.
Skin to skin. Morgan took these pictures. He is becoming quite the photographer.