Father's Day

Today brings a whole new meaning to father's day for us. The last few years I would think about my father and how much I miss him, how I wished Mark could have met him, how he was such an awesome dad and how life just isn't fair sometimes. This father's day is a beginning of new traditions for the Sloan family. Well, hopefully the following fathers days we wont spend in the hospital but we will all be together. Mark had to work on Sunday morning so he came up afterwards for a little bit. He got to hold Ethan and then we went out to lunch. I felt so bad for Mark because I could tell he was beat. I made him a video (which you can see at: http://vimeo.com/12748149 ), some burp clothes... not just any burp clothes... they were made from material with camo and skulls... Mark loved them! He has something else coming in the mail too.

Ethan has been doing super great these last few days. He is on 2 liters of oxygen on the high flow nasal canula. What does this mean? Well when they turn his oxygen down again he will go on the low flow nasal canula! Why such a big deal? Well the low flow nasal canula is the oxygen machine he can go home on! Yeah, I would prefer him to not have to go home on oxygen but if he needs it of course we will take him home on it... duh ;) The other good news is they are starting to shorten his feeds. He has been on continuous feeding and now they are starting to condense his feedings. Right now he is getting his full feeds over 2.5 hours with a half hour break. Before he was getting it over 3 hours with no break. So now they will slowly decrease it until he is at a half hour feed time. Then comes time to try the bottle and breast feeding. We can see the end of the tunnel but it is going to be a little bit yet. Hey, I am just glad they don't expect me to take him home on continuous feeding... just latch him on all day!