He Camed Out!

Its 10 am.  Rebecca and I have both had a luxurious 2 hours of sleep, and the parade of nations has come through the room.  Breakfast for Rebecca, various nurses, lactating specialist.  We're also taking calls and emails from those of you that aren't slacking this Sunday morning.  Wake up!  Both my parents and Rebecca's found out second hand from someone else who had read email or the blog, so the joy of William's arrival hass overshadowed being out of the loop.

After I posted the blog this morning, we went up to the NICU to see William and "learn" about the NICU.  Very little has changed, other than nurses sadly.  Thomas' primary from 3 years ago is at the McKinney Baylor now.  Other than that, everything is the same, the layout, the smells, the sounds. 

He looked great, as the picture below shows.  He's on a C pap to help keep his lungs inflated, but he's basically breathing on his own.  He looks huge compared to many of the babies in there and what Thomas looked like.  I do remember being incredulous (and possibly slightly jealous) at how big some of the other preemies were compared to Thomas.  The Cpap looks so small on William, I decided to go back and look at Thomas when he first got his Cpap.  The link to some of the pics is here.  http://thomaselliot.blogspot.com/2009/02/article-from-hollywood-insider.html



William will be in the NICU for probably about 3 to 4 weeks.  They need to make sure he's growing, breathing and eating; the big 3. 

Finally, we called Thomas and Mimi showed Thomas a picture of William while Rebecca told him was a big brother.  Thomas' exact quote was "Baby William! He camed out!"