Oliver is 1 today. ONE! What a year it's been. Oliver now weighs 17 pounds and 13 ounces and is 26 inches long. I know this because he had to go to the doctor yesterday because he's sick :( I was really worried that he was going to spend his birthday in the hospital, so I'm glad it didn't end up that way. The doctor yesterday was worried about how fast he was breathing and how high his heart rate was, so she sent him for a chest xray. Luckily, there's no pneumonia. Unfortunately, she believes it's just a viral thing that needs to run it's course. She put him back on 24 hour oxygen, which is a pain, but she said this will pretty much guarantee he'll be approved for his Synagis shots this fall. He hasn't gotten sick nearly as many times today as he had the past few days, so I'm really hoping we're in the home stretch.
This comes just 2 weeks after we finally got his feeds back on track after his gtube surgery. The first couple of weeks after surgery were really rough. His reflux was at it's worst, we had had to slow down his feeds and give him smaller feeds. Not easy when his dietitian wanted to increase rate and quantity. Finally, we were doing well with it, and he gets sick. Still, no regrets on the surgery. It's such a relief to not have to constantly worry about the ng tube any more. The site is still bleeding occasionally, which worries me, but I'm told it's normal. He likes to pull on the tube, and of course, chew on it. He's chewing on everything these days, but still no teeth.
Oliver is sitting up great, and rolls from his front to his back immediately, but is still not rolling from back to front or trying to crawl. While his occupational therapist isn't worried, she does want to work more on encouraging these things. He is having none of that. He wants nothing to do with tummy time, or laying on his stomach at all. He's eating purees really, really well, at least he was 3 days ago. Fingers crossed he'll still want them when he's well again.
Nathaniel is such a great big brother. He loves getting to take Oliver a toy or his blankie, or giving him his paci. Pretty much any time Oliver makes any noise, actually, Nathaniel is trying to stick that paci in his mouth.
We had planned on taking the boys to dinner at the aquarium tonight for Oliver's birthday dinner, but with him being sick we're stuck in the house. We had also planned on him getting to try cake for the first time, but that's also getting scrapped. We'll try again next week. We let Oliver open his gifts from my sister and her family last night, and he really enjoyed playing with the ribbons. Nathaniel was more than happy to help him out with the rest of it.
Hopefully he'll be all well again soon, and we can have a birthday celebration for him. Mama loves you, buddy. It's been a crazy year, but you've come through it with flying colors. You're my little fighter, and I'm so, so proud of you.
