Five Weeks and Counting

This week finished out week 5 for Jonathan in the NICU.  He celebrated his one month birthday!  In many ways, it feels like a blur with all of the running back and forth to the hospital and spending time at home with Noah, Grace, and Ruth.  Jonathan continues to heal -- laying on his belly!  He did move up to a "big boy crib" in the NICU.  The surgeon came in this week and cleaned off the scab, the dead skin, and yucky stuff.  Now the nurses have orders to keep wet gauze on it, letting it dry out, and taking it off again by pulling up dead skin with the gauze, only to repeat the process again every 12 hours.  This process keeps the old cleaned up and stimulates the new skin growth.  Not sure how long we will be doing this, but probably a few more days.  Everyone keeps telling us that the layer of skin forming underneath looks good, medically speaking.  We haven't seen it yet, because we haven't been there for the changing of the gauze! 

Noah and Grace visited his bedside again today and were thrilled to touch Jonathan's hands and feet!!  Here are a few pictures...