Thursday, January 22, 2009

progress!!

This will not sound like much to most of you, but we have achieved several little victories around here and I really want to shout them from the rooftops. But it is too cold outside. So I will shout them here:

The boy is regularly holding his head up in the prone position, up on his elbows, and turning his head from side to side!

He is mowing down small bowls of rice cereal like a lumberjack and crying for more!

Tonight he took HALF a feeding orally (Dr. Brown's preemie flow bottles, I love you!) - the most he has ever consumed via his wee mouth!

I really, really needed some good things to happen, and my prayers are being answered. I know AJ will do great, all in good time, all in God's time. But I am impatient! And when I see these little steps accomplished, I am so grateful. Remember, my poor baby did not eat anything orally for 6 weeks in the hospital, and we didn't know if he ever would. The fact that he will not only swallow cereal, but swallow it with ease and cry for more? Nothing short of a miracle in our eyes.

Nothing short of a miracle.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

YAY!!!!!

Congratulations!

This is wonderful news indeed!

Ruth said...

Hallelujah!!!! I am so happy for all of you.

Unknown said...

We serve a mighty God, Kate! That is fantastic news!!!

Pam said...

God is good - all the time.

Have I mentioned it's great to have you back in the blog world? It is:)

Hey, I keep forgetting to check and I know your life has been anything but slow:) but did you ever get the package I sent? I just want to make sure it arrived in the midst of all that was going on:)

Liz said...

awesome! that's great about the cereal. so happy for you!