Jay got to visit Jamie tonight in the Intermediate Care Nursery. There the babies are four to a room, and parents have free access to pick up, hold, and otherwise care for their children. It's both a liberating and scary feeling, because now it seems like Jamie is actually our responsibility.
He'll probably be taken off his feeding tube soon. They would leave it in if we were insistent upon him being breast fed only, but since he needs to learn to associate sucking with getting his belly full, we think it's best that he be given supplemental bottles.
Jay's going to post a picture of Jamie tomorrow, now that we have a couple where he's not on the ventilator. He's still got the nasal cannula, and it's striking at first in a photograph. We've seen it so much in person that we hardly notice it, but to look at it in a picture reinforces the idea that he's in a hospital and that in another time he might not have been okay. So, we're very grateful that he's a 21st century baby.
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