Go Bryton, It's your (1 week) Birthday!

There is no new bleeding in the brain and what's there has already started to metabolize back into his system! Yay! No one has read the renal kidney ultrasound yet, but there should be some news by tonight. He is continuing to urinate and even had a little poop. Who ever knew you could be so happy about poop?! The nurses are really encouraging us to start Kangaroo Care- they want us to make some skin to skin contact and hold him. He will still be connected to everything and they tape all of the tubes to our arm. Kangaroo Care started in a lot of rural, undeveloped countries as a way to soothe and encourage premature babies and babies with other significant problems when the technology to help them wasn't available. It is supposed to make the baby more comfortable by being in a more familiar environment- they like the actual skin to skin contact and hearing mom and dads heartbeat and voice. We are still a little standoffish because we don't want to do anything that could harm him, but all of the nurses and Dr.'s keep telling us that it's very beneficial for all 3 of us. I don't know if today is the best day because we went into Pets Mart and pet a few cats. We will probably start by helping change his diapers and check his temperature and move into the Kangaroo Care in the next week or so. It sucks that he's a week old and we haven't touched him yet, but we are just so glad that he is here and doing as well as he is. We went into Babies R Us earlier and had a hard time not walking out with the entire store. So that's all for now. We'll let you know if anything changes.