3 lbs 5.25 ounces
Today Calen is 2 months old. What an amazing experience this is to us. We feel overwhelming blessed by the support that we receive from everyone, and the simple fact that it has been 2 months and everyone continues to help is a true testament of God's love. I know it has been a while since a post, 5 days actually, I will be getting everything caught up with this post. The truth is, nothing has been changing really, I mean there has been now but for a while things were pretty consistent.
So on Thursday we ran into some issues with Calen having blood in his stool, which at that point was noticeable just by looking at it, and now he still has blood in his stool but it is only occult (we cannot see it, it's microscopic). X-rays showed no problems and the blood test did indicate a low hemoglobin and hematocrit which required transfusion. He received the blood transfusion on Friday night after he was 24 hours out from having any food. Holly said that Friday when she went in to see him before he got the blood transfusion he was looking pale and his breathing was pretty bad. After the blood on Friday he was doing much better come Saturday. They were able to wean his o2 back down to 24% and he wasn't having any heart rate drops as he was before. On Saturday we thought maybe he would be able to resume his feeding's but they continued to keep him off feeding's until Sunday. Sunday came and they resumed his feeding's at half the rate that he was at, so they took him to 14 ml every 3 hours and they have removed all fortifiers from the milk.
As of today, Tuesday, they have made several changes. They have increased his breast milk feedings to 24.2 ml today so he is very close to the full 28 ml dose every 3 hours that he was getting. So he should be back to 28 ml every 3 hours tomorrow and then I would suspect that he will be back on fortifier on Thursday. So today they were able to start weaning Calen's breathing machines back down. He is off SiPAP now and he is back down to CPAP, they are using the SiPAP machine just on CPAP mode. He has tolerated it well all day and they are going to be changing every thing back over to high flow o2 rather quickly. He could go home as early as 3 weeks from now, 4 weeks from now will be his original birth date. It is going so fast, I can not believe we are preparing him to actually come home to us, it is pretty exciting.
We saw the OB today for Holly. Her blood pressure's are great and things on her part are doing spectacular. I also gave the office a gift today which was a 16x20 canvas of Calen at birth, that will now be hanging in there office, which is really exciting to see.
A couple videos brought to you by Aunt Susan below
On Monday Holly got the chance to start something new wit Calen and that would be a swaddle bath. These baths are using nice warm water in a rubbermaid container and then wrapping him in a blanket and then soaking him in the water. Then you wash him body part by body part and then just rewrap him as you go. Very neat process and Holly said that Calen really enjoyed it, in fact she believes he was complaining about it when they were done.
Apparently since Calen is growing so much that they decided that he was a flight risk so they placed an ankle bracelet on him so they know if he tries to leave the unit.
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