A Virus Attacks - Mom and Dad

Colin had a great day yesterday and overnight. I can't say the same for the parents. Ania and I decided to catch a virus. Achy, chest congestion, cough and malaise - yuk. No fever, though. I bring this up only because yesterday was the first day since Colin was born that we didn't stay by his side. It was brutal not being with him; it would be much, much more brutal if we passed along to Colin the bugs that were knocking us back. So, in his best interest, we stayed away. Darn viruses.
Yesterday, the doctors added some key vitamins and an iron supplement once a day to Colin's diet. The iron will help with the anemia since he's hanging at the lowest end of the hematocrit scale prior to the doctors being forced to order another blood transfusion. He remains asymptomatic for anemia, so they're trying to let Colin's bone marrow figure it out. Produce those reticulocytes, Buddy! We don't want any more transfusions, please :-)
We received some more encouraging news yesterday: Colin, once again, gained just about an ounce in a 24-hour period. He's now up to 2 pounds, 10.2 ounces. He's up and down on his bottle feedings, but it appears that the hind milk, coupled with his tolerance of MCT oil is starting to pay dividends. Now if he can just keep up this pace. We were hoping for 4 pounds by the end of January, but if we get 3.5 pounds, we'll take it!