Update: Dec. 27

Lucas had a better lung scan yesterday and he seemed to either be responding well to the antibiotics, or he didn't have an infection to begin with. They put a line in his tummy to pull out some of the gas to relieve pressure. He had a sensitive day today and yesterday and seemed to cry a lot -- though you cannot hear him so you just see his angry face a lot. When he gets upset his little arms and legs flail all over unless they're tucked in. For the most part we left him alone. His PICC line had a leak in it, so they took it out and put a new one in yesterday. The nurse, Amy, said that they got it in with no problem or second tries. Lucas weighed 1 lb 14.68 oz on Dec 25, but weighed 1lb 11 oz last night. His fluctuation is due to being taken off feeds and continuing the diuretics. We're hopeful they will start his feeding again soon. We might have a better chance of one of us holding him Wednesday. He had his first vaccination- Hepatitis B shot today-- he didn't like that much either. Brandon came up with a nick name for baby--- he will be calling Lucas "roo" because of the Kangaroo care. Friday will be 5 weeks! We'll be updating as things change, but baby is stable and doing ok. We have a good chance they'll be trying him off the ventilator tomorrow morning.