Hard day for all of us

This morning around 11 am John and I took off Luca's first set of casts. Through the screaming of Luca, John carefully unwrapped the many layers of soft fiberglass casting material. Under the cast Luca's skin was bruised, swollen, and had a few sore spots. It appears that the casts were on for too long and his legs grew from the original casts. Luca was unusually fussy last night as he was up most of the night. John and I took two hour shifts with him as he screamed through the night, which is very unlike him. He usually just wakes up to eat and goes back to sleep every 3 hours. So we went to Children's Hospital to have him recasted and the doctor said that we should give his legs a week to heal. It was very hard to see our newborn go through this. He seems to be quite calm now and not in pain. We know that babies heal quickly and pray that this won't happen again through this casting process.