All stable on the Lucas front.

What weighs 1 pound, yet is made of pure awesome?

Answer: Lucas Matthew Sharp!

It's good and bad to say that things are "same old, same old". On the good side, Lucas hasn't really gotten worse. He's very sensitive today - so the nurse told us that when he would need to be touched earlier in the day, his desaturation on his oxygen would go lower, which meant they needed to increase his oxygen.

He's currently at 50% oxygen.

We haven't gotten the test results back on his PDA (heart valve condition), but that's because it was run in the afternoon today and we're unsure of how long it takes to run the results. The cardiologist was very very busy today.

The head scan is due for tomorrow.

He's still stable.

It's going to be a slow moving process. We understand that. My sister said, "We just need to make it four more days." When we get to the end of the week, Lucas will have hit a huge milestone. Baby steps. Slow and steady wins the race.

Kristen has made tremendous strides in her milk production. She's still producing colostrum, but a lot more of it.

oh, and LUCAS is POOPING! I forgot the name they called it, but pooping is a good sign!


I also know that the volunteers were gone for the holiday and so they didn't have his name on the window, but today I saw that they had put it up:

We know he's very very sick, but it's still nice to see that they're making this more of a home for him.

We're looking ahead to the immediate future. We know about the honeymoon phase that many preemies go through, and we're preparing ourselves for the rollercoaster ride that (hopefully) will last the next few months. Kristen and Brandon have already started their emotional trials and tribulations, and again, thank you very dearly for the support.

Kristen is expecting to be released tomorrow.  And now... for cute, super adorable prints: