Day 3 of Liam

I loved getting to spend more of the day up in NICU with Liam! I felt better in the morning so I got a good shower and walked up to NICU with a wheelchair for support.

While we were up there, the nurse needed to get vitals and change out his sheets. She taught Steve how to take an axillary temp and we watched how to change his diaper around his silo. Then when the nurse changed his sheets- I GOT TO PICK LIAM UP while she swapped out bedding underneath. I WAS SO EXCITED TO HOLD HIM!! I couldn't cuddle him because he was hooked up to everything, but I loved it and he looked so content. She said I could give him a kiss on the forehead and he seemed to like that a lot.

After she got him all nuzzled back in, I noticed his feet looked a bit dry. The nurse said I was welcome to rub lotion on him, so Liam got a leg and foot massage as well as a rub down on his arms and hands. He was a bit squirmy at first- I guess lotion does feel a little weird to begin with. But after a while he didn't seem to mind too much. :)

The pediatric surgeon had been by earlier in the day and cinched his silo down about a half inch. She thinks his surgery might happen on Wednesday or Thursday next week. We're getting closer!

I must have overdone it at the start of the day, because boy did I pay for it the second half of the day. They upped my pain meds, gave me something for nausea, and I took it more slowly the rest of the day.

We went back at night for bedtime. Our friend, whose baby was in the NICU for a number of months last year, lent us a storybook she read to her baby every day. Steve and I each read a story out of the book and then play him some songs from Renee and Jeremy's album- It's a Big World. Liam loves it and if he's starting to fuss, he usually calms down once it's on. It's the same album Riley goes to sleep to every night so I'm sure Liam has heard the first few songs before (en utero!).