Dear Samuel,
Today was one of those "once/twice in a lifetime" kind of days. Today was the day your Momma got to hold you for the first time. It took 4 nurses to take you out of your incubator and get you over to momma, but I think it was well worth it. I was lucky enough to have my camera ready to capture some of these moments:
After a few minutes on momma's chest I think you were all snuggled up and fell asleep for about 30 minutes.
They finally got to the bottom of why your Blood Sugar has been spiking. The did a blood culture on Friday and finally this morning were able to tell that you have some sort of infection in your blood stream so you were started on antibiotics immediately. Hopefully, that will fix this problem we've been having.
You continue to have really gross looking diapers (which is a good thing, because it means you are getting rid of all of that bilirubin).
Your feedings were upped again to 8 ccs every 3 hours. Our goal is to get you to 10 to 12 ccs every 3 hours. If you can get there, we may not have to do the PICC line (which would be awesome).
Hopefully, we will get a chance to give you a bath tonight....That's where we are heading right now!
See you soon.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Today was one of those "once/twice in a lifetime" kind of days. Today was the day your Momma got to hold you for the first time. It took 4 nurses to take you out of your incubator and get you over to momma, but I think it was well worth it. I was lucky enough to have my camera ready to capture some of these moments:
You also got to experience your very first Packer's game (With No sound....thank the Lord). Unfortunately, I shouldn't have mentioned anything about a "streak" in a previous post. So, I'll take this one....my bad.
They finally got to the bottom of why your Blood Sugar has been spiking. The did a blood culture on Friday and finally this morning were able to tell that you have some sort of infection in your blood stream so you were started on antibiotics immediately. Hopefully, that will fix this problem we've been having.
You continue to have really gross looking diapers (which is a good thing, because it means you are getting rid of all of that bilirubin).
Your feedings were upped again to 8 ccs every 3 hours. Our goal is to get you to 10 to 12 ccs every 3 hours. If you can get there, we may not have to do the PICC line (which would be awesome).
Hopefully, we will get a chance to give you a bath tonight....That's where we are heading right now!
See you soon.
Love,
Mom and Dad
