Day # 67 We are so LUCKY!!!

Today when the doctors called they told me that the NG tube is out!!! I can't believe how fast this whole thing is moving along. Anyways, he started to tell me that they stopped using the HMF in the breast milk and started using something else that I can use at home, basically they are transitioning him to the other stuff to make sure he can tolerate it. Then he asked me to schedule our room in when we get there today!! This is the first time in 9 weeks that I have been excited to go to the hospital. This will be the first time since he was born that I will get to see him without any tubes or IV's.

Last night Chris and I were going to the hospital and kinda talking about "why?" this happened to us and surprisingly the discussion turned very positive. We feel like this whole situation really strenghten our marriage. We really worked through some of our BS and petty crap during this. We also feel like being a preemie parent makes us love our babies just a little more then if we would have had a healthy full term baby, not that "regular" moms don't love there kids...we all do..we just appreciate our babies in a different way. So, really...we are blessed, we just didn't see it at first..but now we do and we will never forget it...every bump or bruise, cough or cold, he gets will startle us a little more then the average parent but we have to be thankful that we even get those moments . Ever time he gets in trouble and the first time he falls in love will mean just a little more to me and my DH because at one point we didn't know if we would ever have those moments.

Today, I feel truly blessed!!!