On Tuesday I got a call from Jefferson’s apnea people, saying that Monday’s download showed no true episodes and the doctor who reviews Micah’s downloads is recommending that he come off the monitor!
I was so excited! Especially since Sean had said that some of the airlines don’t allow the baby to fly with a monitor. . . and we have tickets to visit my family in South Dakota in the middle of October! So I wasted no time calling the pediatrician and getting the final okay from him. Here are the pictures: what I carried around BEFORE and AFTER!! (“After” is so much simpler!!!!)
And Tuesday night, Micah went to bed for the first time in his life without any wires or tubes on or in his body! It was great to see the little guy lying there in his cradle, just like any other little baby! . . .
He really is getting so big! His feet reach the end of the newborn-sized sleepers now. It won’t be much longer before I have to pack away his “newborn” clothes with the “preemie” ones. The past couple of weeks, he has started really smiling, and almost laughing. It is wonderful that he is a normal baby now. He’s also started enjoying the Baby Einstein activity mat, kicking his legs and waving his arms to activate the lights & start the music. Sometimes this summer it seemed like this stage would never come . . .
“It goes by so fast,” people keep telling me. So I want to write it down and remember it all.