The Uncharted Voyage of Baby Degan: Friday Night Update

Today was another great day.

While being here in the NICU we've been taken care of so well....I can't express how flipping amazing these nurses are. The skill, the care and "want to" in being able to help us constantly has exceeded our expectations. Big shout out to our favorite nurse Ashlie...she is the bomb-b.

Now, onto Dana's status. She has started feeling much better and hasn't been experiencing the pains she was having yesterday. We aren't really sure if it was from overdoing it and walking around too much or if it was just the anesthesia side effects and now is wearing off finally. Regardless, we are very thankful for that. We're still working on getting some other minor things fixed up on her but long story short the doctors are confident she'll be just fine.

As of right now, it's looking like Dana will get discharged tomorrow sometime as a patient so that means we will be migrating from a room 1 floor above Finley to a room 2 blocks away from Finley at the Ronald McDonald House in Charlotte. Today, we found out we have a room and we should be able to check in on Sunday.

Now onto the main event, Mr Finley James Degan :).

Little man (or I should say Long man...his hands and feet are very long....wonder where he gets that from?!?!) had another great day. After Dana was able to finally get skin to skin contact with Finn yesterday she has experienced a milk explosion which is awesome. Finn has taken a big liking to his momma's milk too and crushing the bottle very quickly only to do a swift burp followed by passing out via milk drunk. AWESOME.

Had more chats with cardiologists today and they are still very happy with his condition and love that he is stable and just enjoying his nice heated bed, sleeping a lot and drinking momma's milk. Today we replaced an intravenous line that was supplying the medicine/nutrients to him located at his belly over to his lower leg in order to gain the ability to pick Finn up easier. Previously it took quite a lot of work to make sure we didn't disturb the line at his belly and now being that its on his foot it shouldn't be as much of a risk. Hopefully no complications arise from that new line b/c things can always arise weather it be risk of infection, clotting, etc when doing a new line. Regardless, a new line was going to have to go in b/c his belly line was going close up due to the umbilical cord drying up.

Still no firm date for the surgery but expect it to be Monday/Tuesday AM.

Lastly, our pastor from DUMC came by to visit us and see how we were doing and we had a great visit. Towards the end of the visit we decided now would be a great time to go ahead and have Finley baptized. So, Dana, Sally and I were able to have a special little baptizm in the NICU. Thank you so much Sally!!!

Picture time!!!!!!! All these were taken from today =