Happy One Month Birthday Connor!

Hi there,
Today Connor is one month corrected age. I know it is so confusing with the two sets of ages (try being one of his parents!) but this is how it works. Connor's ACTUAL age is 4 months and 12 days but he is ADJUSTED to 1 month because he was due Aug 1. So we are supposed to base things motor skill wise off of Connor's ADJUSTED age so smiling, crawling rolling over ect will be based on the Aug 1 date and I believe his weight is done off that age as well. His shots, and medical stuff goes off of the ACTUAL age. Whew, hopefully that is clear to everyone now....

So for Connor's month birthday he ate, slept, ate some more, and graced Daddy and I will a HUGE poop!. Praise the poop. This one was so bad though that Connor puked while the diaper was being changed and so into the bath tub he went. Too much information perhaps but when I don't provide enough I hear about it! All in all it has been another wonderful day and now we can tell people when they ask how old Connor is ADJUSTED and they will believe us, kind of hard to convince someone your baby is 4 months when he is only 9 pounds. You could go into the whole story but that just takes so long...

Connor's results came back form Children's today and his xray looked better than when in the NICU so the doctors were very happy about that and all his blood levels came back good and the doctors were encouraged by it. They feel it is timne to try without the oxygen. We are going to have Connor go 2 weeks without the 02 during the day before we try him at night at all. He has to go 14 consecutive days with good saturation levels in order to not have to check him during the day and then he will have to do the same at night before we can stop that one too. So still about a month with some oxygen but it is a starting point. Please pray that Connor is ready for this and can manage to say good bye to the O2 for good.

Love to you all,
Ali