Lightning Round

Dear Samuel,

Not a lot of change today (If this continues to be the case, I may skip a night or two).

Weigh-In you are back to 2 pounds 2 ounces!

You continue to have your "alarms" (de-sats), but have been MUCH better since you had your transfusion. That's what the staff seems to be chalking this all up to; is low hemoglobin and acting your age (somewhat typical in micro premies).

Al of the tests have come back "clean" so far from Friday morning. The 24 hour mark of the blood culture came back negative (and hopefully continues to come back negative), as well.

Overall, you've had a much better day today than Friday. Wish I could say the same about myself. Remember how Mom and Isaac were sick last weekend and I was healthy as a "horse". Yeah, that may have caught up to me....

Have another good night buddy.

Go Pack Go,
Mom and Dad

Status Quo....sort of

Dear Samuel,

Today was about maintaining the status quo. All of your numbers (Heart Rate, O2, BPMs) were well maintained and in the range we want throughout the day. However, we did have some new stuff pop up today.

Late last night, the doctors and nurses (who are awesome by the way) put you under the "Bili" light to help with your bilirubin. There is no cause for concern for jaundice, but they wanted to be proactive. The pictures turned out kind of cool with a blue glow.

This morning, there was some talk of taking you off of the ventilator and switching to a C-Pap. Which, in my opinion, is a great sign. It was just talk though because you aren't quite ready for it to come out yet. Later on in the day, you started getting tuckered out from all the breathing you've been doing on your own and they had to put your ventilator back up to 40 breaths per minute.

Another thing that happened today was we had to give you a blood transfusion, since your hemoglobin was starting to dip a bit. This went well and you didn't have a negative reaction to it.

The doctors decided it was time to put a feeding tube in today too. So, unfortunately, you have another tube going down your mouth BUT you were able to begin taking in breast milk to start helping you grow.

You had a wet diaper today! Yes, we're excited about that because not only was it 18 cc's it means that your kidneys are working great!

Your Mom is doing great too, bud. She's one of the toughest women I know....she hasn't hardly had any pain killers (I think it's the German coming out in her) only Ibuprofen. The other stuff makes her sick, so she just doesn't take it. She was up and moving around today and isn't hooked up to a pole anymore. I have to say......you, me and Isaac are pretty lucky guys.

Sleep tight little one.

Love,
Mom and Dad