Well, we got great news today!  Campbell took all of his bottles overnight for Marsha!  (I think she has the magic touch).  So they’ve left the feeding tube out, and they’re talking about taking the picc line out, as well.  He’s also up to 55 ccs on his feedings.  He didn’t take quite all of it today when we visited, but he took enough that they didn’t need to supplement him with anything.  We think he’s saying woo-hoo here!  🙂

We also talked to Dr. Hayden about what the plan is from here.  Hopefully, we can get the picc line out and see him gain weight and take his bottles by mouth for a few days.  He also needs to get his two month vaccinations, and they don’t want to do that until he has the picc line out (so that they can be sure if he gets a fever that it’s from the vaccinations and not an infection).  So we think the earliest we could possibly get him home would be the end of next week, but that depends on him.  He’s still having some bradycardia (heart rate drops) that they think are caused by reflux, so they’re giving him some medicine for that and keeping his crib a little bit inclined.  If that doesn’t improve by the time we go home, they may send him home on an apnea monitor just to be safe.  

I can’t really explain why we have three different kinds of pacifiers in his crib. 🙂