Nicu stay

Having a child in the nicu is the most difficult thing I have faced so far in my life. Wyatt was on oxygen for 36hrs, and had an IV for nutrition initially. He also had a NG tube (feeding tube) this was the next path for nutrition until he could suck a bottle. The days all ran together for me but I will try my best to do a recap. Since Wyatt was born 6 weeks early he didn't possess the needed suck swallow reflex. In order for him to come home he had to consistently drink 40cc from a bottle at every feeding. Whatever milk he didn't drink would be placed down his feeding tube. We had many ups and downs. From days where he had to be poked to start new iv's, to days where he drank large amounts of milk to the next day where he didn't drink much at all. Even on the hard days we kept positive setting reachable goals for him. It started out praying he would just drink 15cc, then he drank 20 I think, then the next day we set a 30 cc goal and he drank 40. This kept our spirits up. The first diaper I changed ended up terrible....Wyatt ended up peeing all over is daddy! On march 22nd Wyatt got discharged after passing his car seat challenge and hearing test! This day was an answer to our prayers.