Diaper change

During our visit with Beckham today he became very agitated. The nurse suggested we check his diaper. Sure enough, he had a poopy surprise, so Brittany got to change it! I know, it may not sound glamorous, but neither one of us has been able to do that until today.



The picture above shows how huge the small preemie diapers are for Beckham. The picture below shows Nate holding one of the tiny, specially made super preemie diapers that they put on him.



The fact that he is having poopy diapers is actually a great thing right now. They have tried to feed him breast milk through a feeding tube for about a week. He spits it up every time. Since having his PDA surgery he has been a little more healthy overall, and they decided to try giving him breast milk one more time today before trying a special type of formula that is more broken down. The fact that he is tolerating the feeding today is great because he needs the nutrition to grow.

Speaking of growing ... They weighed him yesterday. They said that he weighed 1 pound 15 ounces now, that's 1 ounce above his birth weight. I don't know how he has gained weight, because he hadn't been tolerating his feeding until today. They have been giving him nutrition through the IV (called TPN), but it isn't enough to really make him grow much. If you ask me, I think the surgical clips that they used to fix his PDA probably gave him that extra ounce ;)