3 Weeks Old!

Maverick is officially 3 weeks old and doing so well! He had a checkup with urology on Monday and is looking good (plus he peed on the urologist 3 times😄). He got his back dressing off yesterday which means he is done with neuro until the end of this month when he'll have another MRI. And he is now 6 pounds!


Enjoying some fresh air - aren't those cheeks smooch-able?


Snoozing away


Tummy time tires him out!


Jaeger helping Mommy supervise tummy time

Random Things

Today's post is a bunch of random pictures from the past few days!


Tiny man sleeping in his crib


Uncle Travis came for a quick visit


Getting some more awake time from Maverick


His favorite sleeping position


Jaeger being goofy

2 weeks old!

Maverick is now 2 weeks old and seems to fit in perfectly. Jaeger just loves his baby brother and wants to help all the time.



I'm also in love with this little man and enjoying some cuddles while he will let me!



Josh and I attempted our first outing as a family of 5. Back seat is full and the 2 year old still doesn't listen very well. We'll probably wait a bit before we do that again 😄



Jaxon had a field trip to a dairy farm yesterday and I went along as a chaperone. He got to milk a cow and feed a lamb a bottle.





Life is good, especially when you get to sleep all the time! Maverick had a couple dr appointments this week, all good news. He's now up above his birth weight by an oz, his back is healing nicely and will have a dressing for 1 more week and his MRI came back with no brain ventricles size increase and a healthy looking spine.

Settling In

We are in the process of finding our new normal. It involves lots of baby snuggles with Maverick



Questions from Jaeger about the baby



And fun moments at Jaxon's school

Breaking Free

I got a wonderful surprise when I got into the NICU this morning: Maverick was ready for discharge 😄. Such a great feeling to get him dressed (surprisingly in the same outfit that Jaxon came home in), in the car seat and out the door!!


We had some very excited people greet us at home too.



Welcome home Maverick!!!

Big Steps Forward

Maverick has done so well these last few days

• Started bottle feedings on Tues morning 
• Removed the nasal cannula on Tues afternoon 
• Removed the feeding tube on Tues evening 
• Removed the IV on Wed afternoon 
• Successfully nursed for 2 feedings on Wednesday 
• Had 2 days of phototherapy
• Got to put him in real clothes on today (this means that he's doing a good job regulating his body temperature)
• Urology signed off on no more cathing 
• Discharge is planned for Monday!!

I'm having problems attaching pictures so I'll do another quick post later with some shots of Maverick now that we can clearly see his cute face!

Marvelous Maverick!

Maverick is now 4 days old and has already had quite the busy life!  He had his back closure surgery at UW/American Family Children's Hospital (AFCH) on Saturday and did really well with that and the recovery.  They were able to extubate the breathing tube on Sunday morning and he pretty much went right back to room air with a nasal cannula (same as before surgery).  He got only 1 dose of pain meds at 2 AM Sunday, other than that he tolerated every thing else - my little tough guy!

They however wanted to keep him at AFCH in order to monitor him and have some of the other specialty physicians round and do assessments.  Because of this, I pushed for my discharge on Sunday and at 4 PM, almost exactly 48 hours after Maverick entered this world, I was cleared to go be with him!  Josh picked me up and within 15 minutes, we were at AFCH with Mr Maverick.  

We got to hold him for the first time on Sunday, both Daddy and Mommy were over the moon with that :)

Maverick also began breast milk feedings on Sunday afternoon - they were kind enough to wait for me to arrive so I could be there for his first one.  He has a feeding tube in his mouth so there wasn't much to the actual feeding but he took them really well and kept them all down.  He's had some visitors as well - big brothers and both sets of grandparents.

Jaxon's first time holding Maverick (don't mind the tired looking Mommy)

Grandma Roos got to hold and feed him!

By Monday afternoon, he was cleared for a return to St Mary's NICU so while they did the transfer and paperwork, Josh and I headed home for some time with the big kiddos.  I actually had my first home-cooked dinner in 2 1/2 weeks - very delicious - and a mostly restful night in my own bed (minus a few night time pumping sessions)!

Maverick had a good night and day today so the transfer couldn't have been too rough on him.  As of this morning, he is off the nasal cannula and has done fabulous breathing all on his own.  They also upped the amount of his feedings and started doing bottle feeds which he has excelled at.  Awesome part of those is that we get to help out as well!  I actually got to take his temperature, change a poopy diaper and do most of one feeding this morning.  Fantastic mommy moment!!  They did start him on some phototherapy today as his bilirubin levels are a little elevated.  They will re-check his levels tomorrow morning and decide if he needs another day under the lights. All in all, the little one is doing fantastic.  I'll end this post with a cute little Maverick foot :)