One Month Birthday!!!

I know this is a little late, but yesterday Brayden turned one month old. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! And on top of hitting the one month mark, he also hit the 4lb mark and got moved from the POD 1 down to POD 8. This is a huge step towards getting to come home. He is no longer considered critical.

Yesterday was a crazy day with me having to go to work and us trying to visit Brayden. Miranda went down to the NICU early to speak with Dr. Nesslein about Brayden's progress. Dr. Nesslein wound up sitting and talking with Miranda for about 3 hours. They discussed everything from Brayden, to Payton to husbands. She has really taken a liking to us, Miranda in particular, which is good. That means she really does care about us and Brayden. She is a genuinely nice person, the kind of person you could see being good friends with if it weren't for the NICU.

Brayden is just continuing to do so well and is progressing faster then even the doctor expected. Miranda asked her point blank, "now that we are past all of this, exactly how critical was he?" Dr. Nesslein said that he was very critical, but always seemed to stay on the upper side of critical in each of his trials. She said that even though he was very sick, the thought of him not making never crossed her mind. I would like to say that in my heart I knew that he would be ok, but the mind is very powerful. The first time he crashed All that happened to Payton came back to me and as I lay crying on Miranda's lap my mind told me that he might not make it. I had the doubt that he might be ok, but after the first week I knew he was a fighter and that he would be ok.

Now we are three weeks away from leaving the NICU. Those first few weeks seem like a year ago, and yet they don't. In the NICU time is an irrelevant thing.