Carter's had a big week. When we arrived this morning, Nurse Shanda had him dressed in a Santa outfit (which she saved from a diaper blowout just moments before we arrived!) and he was quite handsome. He's so much bigger than the other babies in the ICN, they all probably thought he was really Santa!
Nurse Brigit was able to get him to take 15 cc's from a bottle and let us snap some pictures of him without anything on his face or tubes in his nose, which was the first time we'd EVER seen him bare-faced. He was royally spoiled with presents from people in the community who donate gifts to the babies in the ICN and by his nurses. I'll have to post a pic later of him in his Duke ensemble from Nurse Rachel. Baby Christopher (Right-Sided CDH) gave him an outfit that says "Babe Magnet" which is very appropriate.
He's still having withdrawals as they continue to wean his Methadone, but they are improving. We're working very hard to get him to feed from a bottle. One of his biggest problems seems to be that he's just plain NOSY! If there's anything at all going on around him, he's more interested in watching that than taking the bottle. Either that or he takes 2 sucks and then falls fast asleep! Just to put it in perspective: Carter is fed 103 cc's every 3 hours via NG tube and is only up to about 10 cc's per day by bottle. He needs to be taking the full 103/3hours by bottle to get home! 
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