No More Club Arm...

Cameron had an IV that was delivering him lipids and electrolytes. In order to keep it in place, his little arm was wrapped up like a club. He'd try to touch his face and smack himself in the head.

This afternoon they took him off his IV, so he got his hand back. He loves having his hands near his face, so we are very excited about this next milestone.

The other big milestone of today is that Cameron was moved to room 2, which is the room for babies requiring less intense care. It's the "feeding and growing" room. Hopefully Cameron will do that quickly. So far, so good. We're proud of all our little guy's accomplishments.

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If you would like to see more photos of Cameron, you can click on this link and see an album :) We're adding pictures regularly, so even if you have looked before, keep checking.

Favorite Cameron Pics

Family Portrait

This is our first family picture, taken about an hour after Cameron was born. Mom was on the way up to her room for recovery. It's hard to tell here just how little Cameron is. He was born at 8:04 pm on Sunday, October 22. He was exactly 3 pounds when he was born, and was 15 and 1/2 inches long. Even though he was little, he was overall very healthy. His APGAR score, used to tell the health of newborns, was a 9. Considering that anything between 7 and 10 is considered healthy, a baby born almost 8 weeks early getting a score of 9 is pretty amazing. 

Put me back in!!!

Cameron's first moments were instant tears... I cant blame him, it's cold in Wisconsin in October.
Have you heard the story of his name?
Sunday afternoon, we had long decided that his name would be Cameron...but we could not remember what it meant. So Steph asked me to look it up. Cameron means "bent nose"...not too much of a meaning there, to the point where we considered changing it. But we loved the name so much so we opted to keep it. Then he came into the world...as you can see, with a bent nose. Over the last 2 months he has been hanging out inutero with his hand to his face, squishing his nose...
It has all popped back into place now.

Kangaroo Care

Cameron is still learning to regulate his own body temperature- a skill we take for granted. It's one of the important things that his isolete helps him with. But, another thing that works is something called Kangaroo Care. They strip Cameron down to his diaper, and he goes on mommy or daddy's chest- skin to skin. We cover up with a blanket, and our body temperature helps regulate his temperature. He can stay like that for up to an hour or more. "K-Care," as they call it, is our favorite time of the day. Cameron loves it, too. It's a great chance to bond and cuddle. This is Cameron enjoying some K-Care with daddy.

A Big Day for Cameron

Today our little Cameron made us proud. He breastfed for the first time! We're going to start trying it twice a day, with his tube feedings in between. He's not getting too much from the breastfeedings yet, it's just to get him used to it.

He also got all the way up to 3 pounds 2.2 ounces- that's 2.2 ounces above his birthweight. A lot of times, it takes a week just to get back up to birthweight, so we are pretty excited that he's exceeding it in just 5 days.

He is being slowly fazed off his IV. It will be nice to see him without his little club-hand one of these days.

Overall, he is little, but doing great. Before coming home, he has to be feeding from breast and bottle only (and growing from it), as well as be able to regulate his own temperature (a difficult feat before coming home to our cold house).

We'll keep you updated. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.