Resting and recovering

Salem and Tree spent the night in the hospital and Salem will be there for at least 48 hours. He is doing better and is finally eating. The doctor has cut back on his IV and Tree says his color is looking better.

They are not sure why he was not doing well. They say it is not RSV, not H1N1, but not really sure what it IS.

Hopefully we will find out soon.

Havin a bad day

Salem hasn't been feeling well for a couple days now. He has had a little cough, diarrhea, boogery nose, and way too much vomitting for someone this small.

Today he hasn't eaten hardly eaten anything and his coloring is very pale. He has just been laying around, not even crying. The few times he's tried to cry, it just comes out a quiet, sad, barely audible squeek.

His heart and lung monitor has gone off several times, which is very uncommon.

We are at the emergency room now.  I figured we would be up all night worrying about him till the doctor's office opens, we might as well be awake with someone in the medical field checking him out justin case he's very sick or quite dehydrated.

ER doc looking at him now.

Monitor, shmonitor....

okay so Salem wears an infant electrode belt kit. the belt goes across his chest, with electrodes (little black square) that attach on the right & left ribs, you have to put goo...or surgical lubricant on the electrodes.. its cold & wet & sticky.. he hates it.. a lot!     Attach the 'trodes to the lead wires, connect the lead wires to the monitor cable and there you go. All wired up and ready to go.

shot time! OUCH!

Salem got his 2 month shots! Grover tried to make him feel better...

5 lbs 11 ounces! little piggy! doing good! nothing much to report... he's 2 months -healthy & growing... but still just pretty much eats & sleeps..

VIP = Very Important Preemie!!!

Salem is our very important preemie right now... but last year Kage held that title...and the year before Scout was our VIP...

(the very cute onsie shirt is actually Kages that he got when he was in the NICU)

Salem & siblings

Salem is doing great! Growing & growing! His siblings seem to like him and Salem likes to be held by just about anyone....except maybe Kage! :)

Sweet Salem

This is Salems sweet baby blanky that he's had with him from the beginning. It was given to us by a lady who makes these precious blankys... http://www.dablings.com/

I had just given Salem a bath and wrapped him up in his super soft, super warm blanky...

Happy New Year!!!

Salem is doing great! He's eating & sleeping & growing! Yes, he can cry but for the most part he is a pretty laid back little boy. He is still tiny. Newborn clothes are still too big for him. He is still on the oxygen & monitors but hopefully those will go away soon. He is not suppose to be doing anything "newborn" for another 2 weeks, but he watches things, looks at movement, trys to hold his binkie in, grabs his blankie... so I think he's doing "newborn" things already.