Well, today was exciting.  We went to the hospital at 6 a.m. so Mason could see him before going to VA for a couple of days.  And, we happily discovered that they had taken him off the CPAP and stepped him down to the “high flow” machine.  This is less invasive and pushes less air, which we hope will make him eat better.  (The CPAP pushes extra air into the stomach and can make it harder to digest food).  This is a really great step because now we can actually see his whole precious face at one time, and he doesn’t have to wear the cap anymore.  Yay.

He did have an elevated bilirubin level today, which means that he had to go back on the phototherapy light and get a cool new pair of shades.  Pic below, but the color is distorted because of the phototherapy light.  He also got to sleep on his stomach for the first time today – previously he hasn’t been able to do that because of the CPAP and the ventilator.  He took to it immediately.  I knew there had to be something of his mom in there somewhere…