Today we woke up very excited after calling Nolan's nurse. Nolan had such a good night last night (Saturday night) that they took off his cannula that was giving him his extra oxygen. He was breathing room air! Little man got tired after about one hour so they had to put him back on the tiny bit of extra oxygen. We'll get there someday...I'm sure we will...just not quite yet. We keep praying that someday soon we'll go into the hospital and he'll have his cannulas off and that they will stay off FOREVER! It will happen when he's ready!
It's been kind of hard, okay very hard, watching other little ones come and go from the NICU. (That's a bit selfish of me...sorry...we do love seeing them come and go as that means great news for other families!) We learned this from the beginning, but now we are seeing exactly what the nurses and doctors were talking about when they said to us that girls develop more quickly than boys. There have been a few girls that have come in and needed more assistance than Nolan needed from the beginning. It's amazing how quickly they get off of the extra O2 support and away they go home with their family. All of the girls in the NICU right now are very, very small and none of them have extra O2 support. It's amazing to see. The other boys that are in there with Nolan are the same weight or bigger and all of them have O2 support. It's a pretty crazy thing. After teaching in a middle school I thought for sure that girls being more mature than boys happened around middle school age. I never realized until recently that this maturity difference between boys and girls actually starts in the womb.
Nolan is officially a 6-pounder. Actually 6 pounds 2 ounces as of midnight last night. He is changing so much already. A double chin and filling out everywhere, we love it!
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