Everyday Colleen and I wake up and prepare ourselves for a roller coaster of emotions and hope. We feel thus far we have been very lucky, because Max has been so strong willed as each day brings its own set of progress and milestones. When we arrive at the hospital early in the morning hoping to catch Max's team of doctors we try and ask as many questions as possible. We are starting to learn more medical terminology, but half of the stuff that Colleen writes in her notebook everyday, as we interrogate the doctors, we have no idea what it means. It just makes us feel like we are doing the best job in monitoring and taking care of our little boy. Luckily the doctors are very patient and thorough with every question and concern we ask, but I think Colleen has a head start on her question asking due to her endless obsession with Grey's Anatomy. She likes to reference the "fiction" television show whenever I ask about the doctor lingo or hospital hierarchy. But lucky for me none of the doctors are akin to Dr. Sheppard's looks.One of the main issues with premature babies of Max's age is the "gut" working properly. Basically what I mean by gut is the process of feed and other fluids getting transferred through the digestive system. His "No. 1" process has been working just fine, as noted in a previous entry (Colleen getting her hands a little wet while changing his micro-diaper), but the "No. 2" action was yet to come. That was until recently. Colleen and I had been sort of rotating who gets to change the diaper. And so it was my turn to do the diaper change. When I opened him up expecting to just do the routine pee diaper change, I was a little panicked when I saw this tar like substance (which is normal--called meconium) in his diapers. I would not recommend a google search on meconium, unless you are prepared for it. So I immediately bailed and called for backup--Colleen. She swooped in there and cleaned him up and had changed his diaper right away. Glad she has the motherly instinct, because before Max was born she would have gotten a little queasy at the sight of something this grotesque.
About to bail this diaper change!
The happy mommy after an eventful diaper change
These special moments that the three of you are experiencing, although not sought after so early, will be treasured for years to come. The Lord is watching over and protecting all three of you, especially little Max.
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