The Story of the Snowden's: Nate update, January 31st

Well, today our little Nate is one week old! The week has flown by! And over the last couple of days he's made some excellent progress.

On Thursday Nate finally passed his bloodwork to have the phototherapy lights taken off. His numbers went back up a bit on Friday, but not enough to put him back under the lights. He has more blood work being done today to monitor it.

Nate was able to finish a bottle on his own on Friday. He can usually only get through half a bottle, and the rest they need to put through his nose tube. So he hit a milestone yesterday by doing it on his own. It won't happen every time, but it is showing that he is getting stronger!!

And then on top of that, we had our first sucessful nursing session last night. He actually latched on and fed for about 10 minutes. Pretty good for his 3rd try at it! The nurses are saying "he's growing up" which makes us pretty happy! His feedings are being increased daily and he is handling it all very well.

Thanks again for all the prayers. We are seeing it daily in Nate's progress!

Here's a few more pics.....

Nate with his "shades" under the lights