Another update with mostly good news :)

So, Carl was born last Wednesday :)

He was doing very well, breathing on his own, and looking very good.But then they found that he was born with a small birth defect, his intestines were not fully developed, the bowel ended about 1 cm from where his "exit" should have been.

This is obviously a big problem, so on Friday, when he was only 48 hours old, he had to have surgery. It took two hours with some complications for them to give him a colostomy bag, that he will need to wear for a few months.

Right after the operation, Friday evening, he was quite weak and the doctors didn't want to say very much about his chances.

But now it is Sunday night, and he is doing well, he is breathing on his own. He is still sedated, so he is not feeling any pain from the operation. So that is good news :)

And we have more good news: On Friday morning Helen had an MRI-scan, and it showed that Helens tumours had shrunk very much. The neuro-surgeon and the oncologist both expressed great surprise that the two rounds of chemo had had such a great effect. Helen was scheduled to have brain-surgery on Saturday to remove the tumours, but this was now cancelled, and she will now instead just have two more rounds of chemo and some radiation, before they scan her again. So that is VERY good news :)

Here are some more pictures of Carl: