Tuesday night

Grandma Mills for Gerry and Cammy: Tuesday night at 7PM. The good news today is that our little boy graduated. Reed is no longer in NICU (neonatal intensive care unit). He graduated to the next level called the intermediate care unit (ICU). The doctors said he was ready a day or more ago to leave the NICU (where babies get the most intensive care), but they had to wait for space in the ICU to open up. The other good news is that Cammy and Gerry now have a room on the same floor in the same building with Reed. It was a cold walk across a wet rainy street last night from the other room they had (at feeding times, Cammy did the walking not Reed). Reed has turned into our golden boy (a common condition where the biliruben goes up and the baby begins to jaundice - - it is related to normal break down of extra blood cells). He is basking in his own special light to resolve this. The treatment is to shine ultraviolet light on the skin (he certainly would not get it outside in sunlight here in the Pacific Northwest). Unfortunately, the lights and transition to breast milk have made him a little dehydrated, so they are going to insert a feeding tube and get him plumped up. Cammy is determined to continue breastfeeding so I am sure they will all work through this.