Well today was another busy day for Greyson. They started giving him some breast milk again this morning at 8AM. He gets 1cc every four hours and before giving him any more they suction out his stomach to see what happened. As of Noon and 4PM they didn’t get anything which means the food has left his stomach and we will have to wait and see what happens now. When we went to change him at Noon we received a BIG suprize. Stacy pulled back his diaper and gasped really loud and said “Oh my goodness”. She immediately called his nurse over and as soon as she looked down she also gasped really loudly and said “Oh my word!”. Another nurse called out “Is everything OK over there?”. Well it was, in fact it was a good thing it was just that Greyson had mad a MAJOR poop. It was black and tarry (it’s the maconium or however you spell it) and was more than I would have thought a kid his size could have made. Pretty much what the nurse said too, especially since he had the stomach perforation just last week. This is a good sign that things are starting to work so it was exciting. When we went to change him at 4 he had made another fine mess. Not quite as dramatic but considering what he’d done just four hours earlier it was quite impressive. Not much else to report things look good. He’s probably going to have another blood transfusion in the morning as he is looking a little pale but everything else looked pretty good. We still have a long way to go, even with the stomach issue as the Dr. said even if he gets to full feedings we could encounter a problem in a couple weeks all related to the perforation. We will just cross that hurdle when and if it comes.
Stacy bought me a pickle for lunch trying to bribe me into letting her hold him again tomorrow. I was hoping it would be my turn but decided I’d yield and let her do it again so as long as Greyson is doing well in the morning she will get to hold him for a few hours again. We continue to be amazed by him and praise God for the incredible blessing he is to us. Enjoy the pics (Greyson’s hand is covering his face I believe because he knows what we are about to find when we undo his diaper!)