December 18, 2004
The kid gets big
Charlie is now at 4 pounds 8 ounces. He has added a chin and a half in the past two days.
His doctors think that at least some of this is retained water, but not in a particularly bad way. They're going to give him a little diuretic to encourage him to lose it, but he's still putting down plenty of milk (almost 3/4 ounce every 3 hours), so his systems are running well.
A little while before this picture was taken (while I was holding him) Charlie kept ringing his alarms by twiddling his feet funny (that's where the oxygen monitor is taped on); but every time the nurse came over to see what was going on the numbers would go right back to normal. Then when Julie held him we was perfectly quiet. He may look innocent here, but we know better....
Posted by wallich at December 18, 2004 07:09 PMThat is the most peaceful looking little baby I've ever seen! His three not as little cousins were over this afternoon to "help" decorate the Christmas tree. Poor Matt dropped a glass ornament and cried because now we wouldn't be able to have a merry Christmas! I thought about y'all tonight while we were having pasta and grocery store spaghetti sauce, not too bad and we aren't even in a hotel.
Thanks for the picture and kiss Charlie for me.