My Little Cutie

I went to visit Tucker this morning. The ladies from work wanted to meet him, so I took them all in one by one. They said the pictures don't do him justice. He is adorable. Tucker is starting to get a big head-we need to quit telling him how cute he is. He pooped once, and the nurse was changing him when I came in. He has a bad diaper rash, so they try to change him right away. For a while after that, he was happy, then all of a sudden, he started fussing and turned bright red. He was fussy for about 5 minutes, then another nurse checked his diaper. he had filled it again! and he was in pain from the rash-I felt so bad! I hadn't even checked. So I cleaned him, then he was happy-five minutes later, he had a full diaper again-so this was the third time, and I forgot to put a diaper under him (rookie mistake). So after I cleaned him, I went to grab a diaper, and he pooped all over his clothes and the bed. It took me and two nurses to change out the blankets and clothes with a MAD Tucker. Once he was all clean and flipped onto his belly, he totally changed-he got happy immediately. So for about 20 minutes, he just looked up at me with wide eyes and sucked on his tube. I talked to him-he looked like he was saying, "look at me, mommy. i am the cutest baby ever-keep talking to me like that." I patted his bottom until he fell asleep. I love him so much! I brought him his Boppy pillow, so they lay him on it sometimes. He likes to be more upright so that he can see what's going on. They also gave him a new stuffed arm. It lays around him, complete with a stuffed hand near his face so that he thinks it a person's arm holding him. I wonder if he is really tricked. The doctors stopped his sedation today, so he was trying to pull out his tube the whole time. He is awake, so he says "get this out!" The doctors also moved him from bolus feeds to continuous feeds, just in case having too much formula at once is causing his breathing problems. They doubt it, but they want to try everything before putting in his trach. So, we'll see. Have a nice day, everyone