Our little Miracle

Our little Miracle
"And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon him." ~Luke 2:40

Sunday, December 18, 2011

3 pounds + ... and Christmas Party and SUPRISE!!!!

Friday evening, December 16, 2011...  Our first family Christmas.  We celebrated Christmas at the NICU tonight!  It was a great time.  All of the siblings ran around in the "family room", while Santa Claus snuck into the NICU to see all of the sweet babies dressed clad in tuxedo's and tu-tu's.  It was adorable!  Santa Claus left a gift for each of the babies, as us parents snapped photos!  Next, Santa Claus went to see the brothers and sisters in the family room.  It was a great night.  Austin had gained 72 grams which put him at 3 lbs 1.5 oz.   BIG BOY!!! This was so very exciting!  I never thought he'd get there... LOL.   He is still at about 28%-30% oxygen  and loving the CPAP over the ventilator!  .....   Then, SATURDAY December 17th, my husband and I walked in for a great big surprise.... and early Christmas gift.....  My baby, at 1410grams... is in an open crib now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
Merry Christmas mommy and daddy!!!!!


The weight he needed to get to was 1500 grams to get out of the isolette.  BUT he is doing so very well with maintaining his own body temperature and with steadily putting on weight.  I was so happy!!!  He's getting so big!!!!! 

Daddy with Austin.... Austin's feet only go to the knees of
his preemie outfit.  Awwe!!!!
L.O.V.E.

Here are several pictures from the night of the Christmas party!  I loved it! So cute!!

Austin is ready for the Black Tie Affair!!!!!   LOL


Santa Claus is on his way!!!


Santa and Austin 2011



Christmas 2011

Austin's living quarters!



Drew talking with Santa Claus 2011



This will be one Christmas we will never forget!  Thank you all for your continued prayers and support!!!  Austin continues to do better every day!  Our main goal at this time is continual weight gain.  Next is to ween him off of the CPAP.  He is on a peep of 6....we will ween him to a peep of 5 and if he does well with that, he will have window times with the cannula... then move to the cannula and hopefully be off of that before he comes home!!!!  Once off of the CPAP... I get to begin to feed him!!!!  I love this little baby so much!  He is so AWESOME!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!  I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A VERY BLESSED HOLIDAY SEASON AND ALWAYS SEE THE JOYS IN LIFE.... WE ARE BLESSED IN SO MANY WAYS.... XOXOXO

6 comments:

  1. WOW he looks great! It is so nice to see him doing well. I am going to post about him again on our Feb12 board. I know many missed the last one! I hope you get to take him home soon. He looks wonderful. I love the Christmas blanket! Keep on growing little man!

    Sabrina
    Feb12 mama

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  2. Such beautiful pictures! So glad Austin got to see Santa!! Im so happy for you he is doing ok! I had lost my baby girl at 26 weeks 2 days gestation back in January, and just seeing what she could have been, like your baby boy is such a miracle. Good luck with everything and I hope he grows into a big strong boy!!

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  3. OH MY GOSH!!! Look at him, he's getting so chubby :) Congratulations on hitting such a wonderful milestone and for being able to celebrate Christmas together.

    Thoughts and prayers as always!
    ~Emily

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  4. He is doing amazing momma! Keep your head up, he'll be going home before you know it!

    Love,
    A fellow BBC feb. 2012 mom!

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  5. So happy to see that Austin is doing so well. Congrats on making it to the open crib! Only parents of micro preemies can appreciate the importance of such milestones. Thank you for sharing your little miracle man.

    Miz. Fellow ex-Feb 2012 mom with 23wkr

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  6. So exciting for your whole family!

    Austin looks great in his tux, very dapper. How did the tutus work out?

    Mrs Bota

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