Peyton is One Month Old!!

On Sunday Peyton marked a new milestone: he turned one-month old!!!

Peyton has had quite a set back in the past few days with his urinary tract infection. He will have six more days of antibiotics. Then, they will do a renal (kidney) ultrasound and put dye in the urine to see if it is backflowing into the kidneys instead of flowing from the bladder out of the body.

Today he had his first eye exam and things look normal which is a big praise to God! They will recheck him every two weeks until he reaches what would have been 36 gestational weeks (he is now at 31 wks).

They are questioning whether Peyton may be allergic to some type of food. Because of this they are putting him on hypoallergenic formula for a while to see if things go more smoothly.

Today they inserted a PIC line again because the IV that was in his hand kept coming out. Evidently Peyton is an active little guy! The PIC line procedure took three hours in surgery! Before they did the procedure he had an IV in his head because that was the best place they could find for the time being. Because of this he has a couple bald spots, but they gave the shaved hair to Alaina to keep.

Peyton's weight is up to 3 lbs 5.2 oz, so he is really growing! 5 more ounces and he will have doubled his birth weight!