Friday night

Some pretty big achievements today. After the excitement this morning from him taking 20 ccs from the bottle, he had a pretty laid back day. We were pretty content to let that be the big accomplishment for the day. So off we went to dinner. When we came back, his nurse was finishing up his feeding... FORTY CCs FROM THE BOTTLE!! This nurse is the one who was his nurse his very first night in the NICU... the one that bent the rules to let Robyn hold him. She feels pretty strongly about the importance of breastfeeding; she calls herself "the juice nazi" ("juice" being mamajuice... white gold...life nectar... breast milk). The odd thing is that after the 40 ccs, he did not drop into a deep sleep like the one he was in earlier in the day. And the juice nazi was not done there. Robyn just breastfed him!!! He latched well and sucked well. They both did really great. Even the juice nazi was surprised with how well it went. We are going back to try again at 2 am.
Below are some pictures of the before and after. The editorial board is being pretty tight with its approval for blogging purposes of any pictures of the "during" at this point.
As I type, it is almost exactly one week since Robyn went into labour. It is hard to fathom. Thank you for supporting us through this unbelievable week. We are so grateful.
Love,
Mommy, Daddy, and the SuperSucker

Before

After