Thursday, April 14, 2011

More Swaddles and There is Talk of Home! Day 61!

3 lbs 7 ozs

So we got to the hospital today fairly early. It was just before noon. We were there when the doctors were rounding and there was no new changes to his regimen today. He is at 28 ml of breast milk every 3 hours with no fortifier in it. They had planned to restart fortifier today but he ended up having some residual milk in his belly this morning so they decided to hold off. After Holly held him today though the residual had cleared up from the prior feed and another feed after that so tomorrow they will start him back on fortifiers. Swelling is still pretty bad, they are continuing to watch it, they are not making any changes due to this, so it is just there.  


The CPAP is officially on him, they didn't not put him back on bubble CPAP as they usually do, they just have him on CPAP that is just positive pressure that is controlled by a ventilator. He seems to tolerate this a whole bunch more. 


They had him off CPAP for a while today while Holly gave him another swaddle bath. She bathed him in the nice warm water and then after that they dried him and gave him a nice full body massage. He was very relaxed after that, he just dangled when Holly held him up, he enjoyed it. While off the CPAP he did really well. Have no idea what his sats were because he was off the monitor too but his color was great and he appeared to be breathing just fine. There is plenty of talk about getting him back to hi flow o2 this week so hopefully by Saturday we will be at that point. 


Mom working on drying him off, He is fresh out of the tube, still has some soap suds on him. 


He he was nice and relaxed getting a massage from mom. They also did neck turning exercises with him so that his neck would not be stiff and it helps with muscle development. 


So this talk of home. Dr has been in and talked to Holly, they have started getting information over to the pediatrician. She said that he is getting big enough that it is time to really pick up the pace and be ready to leave, maybe in the next 3 weeks or so. So God willing he is able to handle being off o2 and all that ,then he should be good to go. Holly will have to spend 72 hours here soon staying at the hospital to nurse Calen every 3 hours to prepare him for actual breast feeding. That should be a real fun time. 

We are out for the day, on another side note if you are Military, Fire, EMS, or Police and you tell them at Chic Fila, you get 50% off your meal, it is an unbeatable deal that I sadly only learned of today. 


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