Isaac Coleman's Blog

Everything you ever wanted to know about the goob man.

Last night was an exciting one for Isaac. They moved him into a crib. (His old bed was the standard open-top NICU issue with a heat lamp.)

Because he is not under a heat lamp, he can wear clothes now. He loves being wrapped in blankets (like any baby). Though he still likes to have his hands out up top to rub on his face.

We can also put lotion on his skin, which can get dried out from all of the bandages they put on him (mostly to hold monitor wires).

They even gave him a couple of toys: a duck and horse attached to pacifiers. He loves them. We just sit the little animal up on his chest, with the paci within sucking range. He’s already very good at holding pacifiers in his mouth with his hands.

We bought him a mobile for his crib. It’s a Fisher Price jungle-themed one that plays some catchy Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart numbers. This is cool because we’ll take the mobile home with us, and it can help in the hospital-to-home transition.

I’ll try to get some more recent pictures up (listen to me – “more recent” – he’s five days old! – Kim already made an album with 100+ pictures in it). If you are not used to the wires, the pictures could look scarier than they are. So I’ll try to put a “wires and tubes primer” up first. This is important, cause a major measure of progress is the number of wires and tube around his crib.

Isaac has a big test on Monday. So we’re going to cram all weekend and focus on getting his rest. If all goes well, he’ll be able to ditch the two remaining tubes… leaving just the bare minimum wires for monitoring heartrate, respirations, and blood-oxygen levels. A tubeless baby is also a baby we can hold, so we’re excited about that.