6/22 6 week update!

Hello everyone!

We decided with him doing so we’ll start doing weekly updates or when we have big milestones. With this I did have a very busy week and have been taking care of myself as I did get a little head cold and needed to get better from that. With that being said here is the week Walker had!

Walker graduated out of the nicu and into a regular room!

he is on a big boy room, they don’t need to monitor him very close anymore and a day later they decided he didn’t need the high Flo and he is doing so well without oxygen! A couple days after we started giving him some food through his mouth not much but starting oral feeds. His doctor came in and said he is tracking so well that we have a couple little milestones away from him being able to come home! Today we got here and he did not have any wires on him, they turned off all of the monitors and said they don’t need to have them on anymore! With this we were able to take him out on the rooftop garden and enjoy the outdoors!

We are so happy with all of his progress this week and so so so happy.

Here are some of the steps that he needs to take:

  1. a hearing test
  2. a echo of his heart
  3. start of bottle feeds
  4. car seat test
  5. see if he needs to be monitored at home

This list is getting very small in the grand scheme of things. And will more than likely snow to come home in the next week!

Thank you all and love you!

Walker, Brandi, Tyler

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