Off to a good start . . .

Everything is looking good this morning. He still has the IV in his scalp which I'm not sure either of us wants to see. The blood culture they took yesterday already came back positive for bacteria, which we expected, and they are going to do another one today. The spinal tap isn't showing anything yet, and that we're happy about- we DO NOT want meningitis. Who does? He is still on the dopamine so his urine output and heart rate are good and he is obviously still on the antibiotics. Last night he did drop his heart rate, but they're not to worried about it because he is probably just really tired. I'm not sure if I mentioned this yet, but the residents decided that he should only get cares every 6 hours instead of 4 because it seemed little to much stimulation and not enough rest for our man. It's hard being little. Oh! And, his umbilical cord fell off on Sunday. I wanted to save it, but it was just too small. You can barely see his belly button! I asked and they said it will look perfectly normal when he gets bigger. So we are pretty happy with everything for right now. We are all hanging in there the best we can. We are so proud of Bryton. I can't believe  he will be 2 weeks old tomorrow! We will be going into the hospital a little later today, but we do have some things to take care of, so I'm not sure exactly when we'll get there. The sooner, the better. Go Bryton!