Day 14 - Samuel Update

Samuel is doing pretty good. He finally pooped! Thanks for all of the prayers in Samuel's behalf. The poor guy has been through so much. The last few days he has had two enemas. The second one seemed to do it for him, finally! The night he had his second enema his bowels started moving and he has become a poop machine. Morgan and I have never been so excited about poop. The radiologists determined that he basically had quite a few meconium blockages that needed to come out. Because of the blockages, a lot of his large intestine was inflated with air and he was having issues breathing because he was so constipated, bloated and uncomfortable. We could see his bowel loops just by looking at his tummy from the outside. Today, his tummy looks so much better and his x-rays look so much better as well. He still has to get some things out but we are hopeful that they can start feeding him again in a few days if all "goes" well. If not, then surgery gets into the picture. Keep your fingers crossed!

Here's a little sign I made for his isolette.

This last Saturday we took Noel to meet her little brother. She did really well.
The first picture of all of the fam.
Noel got to touch her little brother's foot.
Yesterday, on Father's Day, Morgan and I went down to see Samuel. Morgan got to put some breastmilk on a q-tip and put it on his lips. Samuel really like that.

Father and son.