Status update

Here's a little bit of an update for everyone.

It's Wednesday today, and Theo's still being tube-fed most of his food. He's not really getting the hang of this whole "I have to eat for myself" idea. But that's okay. It could be much worse, that's for certain. At least he's (mostly) keeping it down.

Steph and I are both confident that very soon he'll catch on. The doctor needs to see two straight days of him taking all his food by bottle (or breast, which we're going to be trying for the first time this afternoon) before he can be discharged. Hopefully that will happen by the end of the week.

For those of you who've called or emailed about visits, here's what the protocol is going to be. At this stage of the game we're going to be going back and forth to the hospital so much (and I have school work to do which unfortunately doesn't stop) that it's probably just not going to happen, except for immediate family. Once Theo gets home it should be better, but our doctor's warned us about his fragile health, so we might not even be able to have people over then. At the very latest he'll be available for public consumption by early March. We'd really like to have you over (especially if you bring food), but we want to make sure that he does well--that's our first and foremost concern. I'll keep you posted as time goes on.

That's pretty much all for now. More photos later today when I get back from the hospital myself.