Day in the life of the kids...

Baby's first sponge bath outside. It was about 100 degrees and baby felt that he probably was being cooked. I thought he would feel a little less chilled outside as oppossed to the air conditioned house.

I love sleeping babies and their little hands. The shaved parts on his head are from where the nurses tried to insert PICC lines.

Lela has felt a little out of sorts and curled up next to me on the bed for a little nap. She's my big baby.

Having lunch on the stoop with dad.

Watching netflix with dad on the kindle. Something they both can enjoy together!:-)

First real bath when his colostomy bag fell off. It comes off every couple of days. You can see his little red stoma on his lower left belly. He liked having a nice warm bath.

So precious! He'll be three weeks old tomorrow.

July 5th

When I brought baby Stuart home from the hosptial Thula had got Lela and herself all gussied up for the occassion.

We did our fireworks later that night because I was at the hospital on the 4th.

Father and son have a snuggle.

Last days in the hospital

Baby is getting ready to go home soon. They took Stuart off his cushy mattress and gave him just a pillow. He was able to bypass the feeding tube (yeah!) and started pedialyte on Saturday night. I was able to feed him his first bottle of that. Then on Monday afternoon they let me actually nurse him for his afternoon feed.  

Taking baby's temperature.

Baby likes wearing clothes now!

Saying goodnight to brother

binky boy

The last night in the hospital. Baby Stuart is tolerating my pumped breastmilk and gaining weight so he can be discharged now. They moved him to a new room and then I stayed the night with him. We practiced nursing all night to the tune of the 'beeps' and 'dings' of his monitor. Stuart was discharged Thursday afternnon, July 5 nine days after birth. We feel so blessed that he could come home and be with us.

Faces of Little Stuart