Sunday Morning Update

Here's a picture of Red being weighed. The last few hours have been a bit stressful.

Reed was moved, as a precaution, down to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Tacoma yesterday afternoon. He was doing ok here, but Harrison is a regional hospital that doesn't have the facilities to care for him, if he would have taken a turn for the worse, so the doctor felt that since we had the opportunity to move him, that that would be the safest thing for him. It was very difficult to let him go, especially after just meeting him, but he's got excellent doctors caring for him.

They sent a special team up here that transferred him, in first class style, and by he time he got down to Tacoma, he was already doing better. Last night, they said he was doing very well, and if he had been doing that well earlier, they probably wouldn't have moved him. Grandma and Grandpa Mills have been visiting him down there, so he's not all alone. Grandma and Grandpa Austin are on their way down to visit this morning.

We just talked to Tacoma again this morning, and they said they have him on room air, and he's doing fine, so Cammy will be able to breastfeed once we get down there. We'll be discharged from here later this morning, and will probably be staying in Tacoma until he is released, which hopefully will only be a few days from now. I doubt that they have wifi, so this is likely the last update until we get home.

I know that there are many of you who are anxious to talk to us and congratulate us, but please try to resist calling, as this is still a difficult situation for us. I've been reading Cammy all of the comments that are posted, and we may try to start calling people in the next few days, but may also wait until we get home.