Day 33

Tucker is doing fine today. His breathing could be better, so they are starting him on steroids today. He will have a five day course of steroids, which usually helps breathing quite a bit. He has not gained any weight in a while. Yesterday, his nurse told me he weighed 3 pounds, 14 ounces-I told her "not my baby." She had picked up the wrong folder!! He is still at 2 pounds, 4 ounces. He has been using his energy to breathe, not grow, b/c he has been having quite a few good days lately. Tucker was baptized last Friday. Father Tim baptizes babies at Woman's hospital, so he came out to perform the ceremony. It was very nice; Tucker slept through the whole thing. Once he comes home, we are going to have another ceremony with everyone at church. Tucker has seemed pretty relaxed lately. Most of the time he is in the frog position, with his knees bent, and his feet actually resting on his diaper. It's so funny b/c his diaper is too big for him, so it serves as his footrest. Sometimes he is on his tummy, too, which is so cute. Yesterday his nurse put his blue shirt on him. He looked so comfortable. It's nice to be at the hospital when he's awake, but the majority of the time, we visit while he's sleeping. We keep getting gifts for Tucker, and they are all so cute. It is funny b/c we have preemie clothes for him, which we used to think were so small; now those clothes look huge compared to Tucker. He won't be big enough for preemie clothes for awhile. He has special shirts for babies under 3 pounds that mom bought at the hospital gift shop and over the internet. Most of the time he just wears a diaper anyway, but on good days he wears a shirt.