8 weeks and counting!

WOW! We have made it 8 weeks now. I must say that when I look back to that time, it has gone by pretty fast in some aspects, and yet in others, it has been the longest 8 weeks of my life! To be honest, I think most of it is just a blur because it still hasn't completely set in that we actually have a baby!! However, we should be on the downside of this adventure in the NICU. If we do the calculations, we only have 6 weeks until our original due date, which was October 6th. When Zack was first born, the doctor told us to plan for him to stay in the hospital until at least his due date. So until we get told to bring in our car seat for the "car seat test" (That is where he will have to be in his car seat for 2 hours without dropping his oxygen and heart rate percentage for more than 3 minutes at a time in order to be released from the hospital...), we will be planning for the first week in October.

Now, to show you some of the funny and cute things that Zack is doing lately... He has got to be one of the most active babies I have ever seen when he sleeps! Here are some pictures of his favorite sleeping positions. He LOVES to sleep on his arm and to sleep face planted into his bed! *Also, you can see his scar from his heart surgery on his back in these pictures.*



And finally, today we got to start trying to get him to bottle feed. That is a huge step in his progress to come home. It was an eye-opener for me to see all that is involved in this process. What comes so simply for us, is very challenging for him. It consists of a combination of breathing, sucking, and swallowing all at the same time. He didn't do too well with it unfortunately for his first time, mainly because he was asleep and we couldn't get him to wake up!! We will continue to try once a day until he gets that down, and gradually that will increase until he is feeding from a bottle 100% of the time.