Today Jonah is one week old, we sang him Happy Birthday this morning really quietly in the NICU. He was still on the Fentynl so he didn't react but we hoped he heard us anyways. They took him off it shortly after and he spent the whole day twitching and restless. He's still really puffy and retaining a lot of water, but he's peeing good so we're hopeful it will start to go down soon. He did these horrible silent cries that only the parent of an intubated baby knows; they are crying but you can't (or can barely) hear them because of the ventilator tube. Not fun to watch and in the end the nurses end up giving him Adavan and morphine to calm him down. He's still on the billy lights but we changed two poopy diapers today, which they say helps with the jaundice, so we're hoping he'll be done with that soon, when he's on it they have to keep his eyes covered and you have to try not to look at the lights or cover up too much of him so we just can't wait for them to be gone.
We honestly don't have many photos to share during this timeframe because we didn't want to remember it, he was in pain and covered up and not moving, so we just didn't take out the camera much. Here's one we took when he got a break from the billy lights (the white circle on his temple is velcro where they attach the sunglasses for the light therapy). You can see the little "frog" in the upper left, they used that for positioning him different ways so his head didn't get a flat spot. You can see the blue cloth on the bottom they brought around to add some color to the room. They did this several times while we were there and it was really nice, a stuffed animal once, a blanket another time and they let us use several outfits that we returned when we left.
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