Finally feeling like a Mother!

Kasey and I were talking about how hard some things have been the last few days and one of the things that Kasey said was really hard for her was not feeling like a mother. She said that she hasn't been able to do any of the things that you normally do for your child and she wished that they would let her hold him a little more, feed him, change his diapers and just basically be a mother to him. Well today they finally let Kasey feed her little boy. She was so happy to be able to hold him and give him a bottle. If it wasn't for the nurse standing there the whole time and all the cords keeping Brock connected, you could have imagined we were just sitting at home with our baby boy. We both got a chance to hold him for about 30 minutes this morning and he really seemed to like being held. He snuggled in pretty well and liked holding our fingers.

Brock had another echocardiogram, or EKG which is an ultrasound of the heart, and things look pretty good. He still has a hypertrophic artery, which means that his right ventricle chamber is too thick. But the prognosis looks good. The doctors have decided to take him off the prostaglandins, which is the hormones that they have been injecting to keep patent ductus arteriosus, or PDA, which is an extra valve in babies when they are in utero to help with circulation. This will cause that valve to close, and we will be able to see if his heart can function normally. If so, then he will be able to leave the cardiac intensive care unit in a few days.