Friday we went to see Zachary (well I went too) and got to do Kangaroo care again this time with much better results. Probably held him for 2-3 hours by then I was pretty tired (trying to make sure he didn't move so his tube wasn't out of place). He kept wiggling down lol and would not stay and I had to hold his tube after a while so it'd be aligned. Zach seemed happy enough but kept having gas (lol) and with each episode his stats would go down then he'd go back to normal. I thought for sure his diaper would be full by the end.. nope lol.
He's up to 2 lbs 9 ounces. He's gained quite a bit of weight over last week becuase at the beginning he was at 2 lbs 4 ounces. This is a great sign he's starting to catch up.
His pulmonary artery still has the hole in it (all babies have this and it usually closes by full-term gestation) we've still got a month or 2 to go before we need to worry about it not closing and surgery would be needed. There's a few more things they can try to make it close up. Hopefully that'll work or it'll close on its own and surgery won't be needed.
They went up on his feeds again so he's up to 19ccs eight times a day. So hopefully he'll keep gaining well and getting better and better. His oxygen has been in the 30s mostly and hopefully it'll get back down to the 20s like it'd been for a while. They've been able to tone down the respirator settings a bit (breaths per second) back to where they were so that's a good sign. When he's able to stay at 20s for a week or so they'll start trying to transition him again for the cpap that'll also help his pulmonary artery close.
So he's been doing pretty well and he seems to really like the kangaroo care. 3 hours is a bit too much for that :P but 1-2 hours is pretty nice.
New photos uploaded from our Thanksgiving visit with him be sure to check the flickr slideshow.
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
S
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