Baby Steps

After yesterdays progress, today was a bit hard to swallow. We were met by our trusting nurse and found Liam to be doing fine looking around under his little canopy. Then we were met by the staff physical therepist who lets just say scared me half to death. She kept saying that Liam needed to now be put on Morphine for the withdrawal and that if it was her decision she would do so. Thank God she is not. This made our morning very difficult and when we finally went to Lunch at 2ish, Keith and I were both worried.

Liam didn't seem to be having any more tremors than normal, in fact they seemed to be further in between. We discussed this at length. There was then the issue of feeding our little guy. He hasn't been eatting very well at all since birth. He ate just enough in the Nursery, but since being transfered to the NICU Step Down he seemed to be getting worse on his feeding. After lunch Liam's doctor met with us again, he said that his prime concern was getting Liam through the withdrawal process as soon as possible, and that if he didn't have to he wouldn't use medication, but he did want to put a feeding tube in. This was hard to swallow as I'm sure you can imagine. But our Doctor took the time to explain his diagnosis. The importance of getting the callories in Liam is essential to his recovery and this may even speed up the process. Once he is done withdrawling then hopefully he will be feeding better.

So the nurse placed the feeding tube down his nose and into his little tummy. The effects were rather immediate. Liam was less agitated and finally went into a peaceful slumber. Sometimes we rather not make the situation worse, but sometimes action needs to be taken. We are so thankful for his continued progress and strength. We just keep praying for God to lift this burden from him and let him just be a baby. I'm sure that day is coming! Thank you all so much for following Liam's progress and lifting Liam and ourselves up in prayer. Please keep praying!