Recovering from Norwood procedure

James has recovered well and he is waking up periodically. They sewed up his chest yesterday and two of the four tubes he had in his chest are removed. He is also getting less and less medicine. The doctor told us that his breathing tube will be removed sometime this weekend. After they remove the tube he will be able to start getting breast milk again. He will either eat it from a bottle or he will get it through a tube in his nose. He is not as swollen anymore and his numbers looks better. He is still doing very well from what all he has gone through and we are hopeful that everything will keep moving this direction. The doctors are saying that his recovery time will be somewhere between 6 to 8 weeks before he can come home if everything goes smoothly. With the most crucial surgery behind us, the Norwood, we are now only focusing on James' recovery and him getting bigger and stronger!