Later Wednesday evening, the doctors decided to try and remove Tyler's ventilator as it appeared he was breathing on his own with no issues. As wonderful as it was to know he was breathing on his own, it was quite scary not to have the safety net of the ventilator if anything did happen. They watched him closely but he continued breathing just fine without that silly thing... and we finally got to see all of his beautiful little face.He was still very swollen and puffy looking because at this time his kidney's weren't working that great yet and he was retaining a lot of fluid. He still slept most of the time, wasn't real active, and didn't open his eyes yet. Tim finally got to hold him for the first time too. They suggested he take off his shirt so Tyler could feel the skin to skin contact they call 'kangaroo care'.
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