Coburn Kids

All right, sorry it’s been a while since we’ve updated this but we’ve all been sick. I have some very good news though, Caden could be home as early as next week!  Caden’s craniofacial/plastic surgeon Dr. Warnock came up on Monday to see him and everything looks good.  He was very pleased that his gumline is nearly intact, only indents versus any real spaces. The middle of his lip also doesn’t extend out so far so in his opinion, pretty good looking for the cleft. (We think so too )

Caden is a hefty 7lb. 14oz. now.  He’s just about 19″ long and is growing more each day. I haven’t been up to see him now for 4 days and it’s killing me but I will NOT get him sick just before he can come home! He still has his car seat test, an overnight we have to do with him at the hospital and we have to learn how to place his NG feeding tube, maybe some oxygen.  So there are a couple steps left in the process, not to mention that it’s a holiday weekend.

He takes just a little over 2 oz.’s now at every feeding.  He’s still at about 1 oz. every other feeding by bottle. This will improve when he gets his hernia surgery done which they’ve decided to wait until he gets his lip surgery done as well. This way he’ll only have to go under general anesthesia once. I can’t tell you how excited I will be to hold him and cuddle him whenever I want! He has such great awake periods where he’s quiet, looking around and just wants to play.  He loves tummy time up at the hospital as well.

Caden’s eyes continue to regress and he just loves being held. He doesn’t like to be swaddled as much anymore, he’s always fighting to get those arms of his out of the blanket. He just wants to look and see the world and we are just having a mad dash to get everything ready for his homecoming.