Last night... first bottle!

So after I posted last nights blog post we went back to the hospital. We found out while we were gone for an hour that he dropped his heart rate drastically and that they had to bag him. I hate that! I am not sure why he has been dropping his heart rate so much again. I told them that while we were in G.F. they suctioned out his nose after an episode and found all sorts of boogers. So they did try that and he did fine for awhile after that. But he still has been dropping his heart rate sometimes.

Good news is he had his first bottle last night (Tuesday)! He has been getting food for a long time now but it is through a feeding tube. We were able to give him just a few cc's of food but it was to see how he would do with the idea of suck, swallow AND breath. He did pretty good with it and he loved it! I mean how could you not... to actually have something wet go down your throat for the very first time!

Throughout today he had a pretty good day though. Mark insisted on going to Cabella's since we are here. Of course after leaving his comment was "that was the smallest Cabella's I have seen yet." Well at least we filled his need for going ;) I talked to our NICU friends in Seattle and found out they will be staying there for awhile. Oh how I wish that wasn't the case for them. They have to stay because of Eli's eye test results. It's funny how we talk to each other and think oh the other person has it worse off and then the next week it's the opposite. Last week when I told her that we were probably going to Billings she told me that she is glad she is not us with having to go to Seattle twice and then off to Billings. Now I am thinking oh I am glad we are not in Seattle for awhile yet. No matter what though I pray for the both of us and that our E's get better soon so we can start our new "normal" life with our babies.