SUPER BROCK IS AT IT AGAIN!

“The sun comes up, it’s a new day dawning

It’s time to sing Your song again

Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me

Let me be singing when the evening comes…”

 Today has been an incredible day where we have seen huge improvements with our sweet son. Since moving out of ICU and onto the 10^th floor, he has still been sleeping about 22 hours of the day. While that is definitely not typical of a baby his age, it is something we had been told was normal after such a traumatic injury. Today, however, he was awake almost 5 hours (and there is still plenty more hours to party tonight). During his awake periods, he is beginning to exhibit much more typical newborn behaviors. His doctors are impressed with his milk intake (he is eating about 3 oz. a feeding), and they are now allowing us to wait for him to show hunger signs before feedings (as long as we don’t go over four hours). He has been a champ and taken all of his medications by mouth with no issues, so they have agreed that the feeding tube can come out tomorrow! Side note: “With no issues” just means that he hasn’t thrown them up or spit them out to the point where they have to get more medication…it’s still close to a 10 minutes process and far from “no big deal”. Regardless, this is a huge step and we are very, very excited about having one less tube!

Thank you so much for your continued prayers!

~Brad and Taryn Morrow