Blayz of Glory!

Griffin met Blayz today for the first time. This is Grandma Sherrill, Robin's mom. Blayz is Nathan’s step sister’s (Robin's) baby boy. She and I’s due dates were only 4 days apart. Fin came early, and Blayz came a tad late, so they ended up being exactly 3 weeks apart. And what a difference 3 weeks can make! Griffin was so much bigger than Blayz, even down to his head! Blayz sure is a cutie though! A bit jaundiced so it makes these babies look 2 different races, but in a few months they’ll be looking a lot more similar. It was fun to see that Blayz sleeps just as much as Fin – a concern people have had because he’s on Phenobarbital. Some kids are just sleepers – especially newborns!

Fin had his appointment with Dr Pelinka today, too. He’s still doing really well. He’s gained just a smidge over 7oz, weighing in at 9lb 2oz today. I was concerned that he was “snacking” too much and not really eating, but apparently not! Dr Pelinka was going to follow-up with OHSU this afternoon to see about if we could move his consult appointment date up, and if we needed a repeat MRI to do before going up. I’m really anxious to just get up there to see what they say, so stay tuned! Everything has checked out well – the only thing she noticed was that the tone in his legs is a bit … slow. Meaning when she lifts them up and drops them, they flop to the table without much rapid regain. May just be the way he is, may be the Phenobarbital. Whichever, she wasn’t overly concerned.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss! All this watching and looking over such minute details is very stressful. So he doesn’t kick back within a 2 second parameter – does it really mean anything? Probably not. So, anyway. They also drew more blood to check his Phenobarbital level and to do the rest of his immunology tests. The first half they did last week came back normal. They did the rest today.

He slept really well for Nate night (go fig) only waking up at 2am to eat. Otherwise he slept until 7am. I'm hoping I have just as good of luck tonight. Until later ...