This picture was taken Sunday, March 12th, I think?  No, I'm certain. So that would make him 33 weeks and 4 days old if he were still in utero.  Otherwise, sweet baby Asher is one week old.  He had already exceeded his birthweight in this photo and weighed in at a hefty 3 lbs 13 oz and 2/10ths.  Sometime during his first week he lost weight going down to 3 lbs 6 oz (everyone who knows me will agree, I have very fattening breast milk; so it appears it's working; even if he doesn't get it via my breast!!)

This is all so ironic somehow.  My other children have had VERY few needle sticks, never had bottles (b/c I'm the mommy bottle), and I've never left a child overnight till our recent weeklong cruise when at the time our youngest was nearly 3.5 years old.   So this is VERY, VERY hard for me.     

Here Asher still has velcro on his head for the sunglass protection from the bili lights, an NG tube into his stomach for the breastmilk he can handle, an IV in the top of his head for the TPN and lipids (iv nutrition), and then there are all the 'leads' monitoring his heart, respirations, and oxygen saturation.