Tentative Schedule

Hi everyone! Hayden's weight is continuing to increase and he's now weighing in at 4 lbs. 14 oz.!!!

The tentative plan is for his surgery to be on Tuesday and that will depend on how his white blood count is on Monday. They plan to have to give him a blood transfusion so that his red count and hemoglobin levels will not be an issue.

Please pray for the surgeon and his team on Tuesday! I'll let you know if the plan changes...as we know it certainly can! :) Since he won't be operated on until at least Tuesday, and possibly Wednesday or Thursday if there are an glitches in the plan, we most likely will not have him home for Christmas...it takes a couple days for recovery with him receiving only fluids through an IV to keep him nourished and hydrated. Then it will take 2-3 more days for him to get up to "full feeds" which means he is taking the full amount he should be through the feeding tube. The day before we go home, Tim and I will be "rooming in", or staying at a room in the NICU so that we can have help when we need it, but we will have to do everything as if we were at home. That should be interesting considering we will have been in the hospital scene for over a month and we are so used to the help...but we can do it (God's gonna be in on that for sure) :) So we're looking at sometime early next week and hoping that everything goes well so we can get our baby boy home!!!!