Oxygen or No oxygen... That is the question.

Well last week was an emotional one for us. More then normal. :) As most everyone knows Jude is on oxygen and has been on oxygen since he came home from the hospital. We did a test last week as well proving that yes, he still needs it. Well, come to find out, he had a faulty gauge and hasn't been receiving oxygen the whole time he has been home. Of coarse I FREAKED out thinking all the worse case things I could, like what kind of damage has this done to his little developing brain. I called my Doctor and he quickly calmed all my fears and assured me, the only reason Jude needs the oxygen is due to the fact that his hemoglobin in low and worse case he would not have grown. Which he has very well. He grew about a pound in three weeks and with the oxygen he grew almost a pound in one week. So... he is doing very well. Learning how to smile more and more and I am just loving it. Learning to arch his neck, which he does all the time and I just learned yesterday is a bad thing. So we are working on him not doing that which makes him cranky. He loves it. He now weighs 9lbs 2 oz and growing and eating all the time. :) And as always, some pics to document it all...

Any time he is awake we are doing some type of exercise... TUMMY TIME!


Finally got to meet Gramma Great


As Usual, loves his bath. Even though he has earned the Indian name "Poops in Water" In this pic he pooped and we cleaned it all out and got him back in and pooped again. He gets a little too relaxed in his baths.


His cheeks are unreal!


He was so good to let us take him out this week. And he sure looked cute all bundled!


Admiring his room



Trying to catch a smile on camera, got the end of one.

POOR JUDE-O

Well, just in case it wasn't hard enough having a preemie with tubes everywhere, we thought it may be fun to add on an ear infection in both ears. And since we're already having so much fun with that, lets also get some shots and battle a fever and sore little legs for a few days. :) Needless to say, there has been a lot of crying going on at our house the last few days. We're doin all we can to make him feel as good as possible. He loves to lay by the heater. It really calms him. So I got the heater out, wrapped his arms up and put warm wash cloths on his legs, as of the ears, we're just suffering. Jude is doing really well for how badly I am sure he is feeling. Anyway, we're just adding this to our list of can't wait for it to be behind us!!!