It's official. She's shed baby status entirely.
7/21/06
7/17/06
Turning the corner
We're feeling positive today. Both Renee and I visited today and Austin was cranky and irritated with the nurse - exactly as a sleeping baby should be when being poked and prodded by the nurse. The pneumothorax has resolved, the chest tube came out, the arterial line came out and they are working on getting him feeding so the IV can come out. His little veins keep collapsing. Overall, the best he has looked since we got him.
We're feeling positive today. Both Renee and I visited today and Austin was cranky and irritated with the nurse - exactly as a sleeping baby should be when being poked and prodded by the nurse. The pneumothorax has resolved, the chest tube came out, the arterial line came out and they are working on getting him feeding so the IV can come out. His little veins keep collapsing. Overall, the best he has looked since we got him.
Responsible vs. accountable
I wasn't responsible for this but I certainly feel accountable. I'm just finishing saying Felicity,the point of dragging the mattress of the edge of the bed to create a slide is the purpose and perhaps flinging yourself from your bed to the floor is not that safe ... LEAP AT DADDY ... she lands mostly on me and in progress rolls off and bangs her head against the wooden leg of the crib. So... ask Daddy if he feels just a little bit guilty.
I wasn't responsible for this but I certainly feel accountable. I'm just finishing saying Felicity,the point of dragging the mattress of the edge of the bed to create a slide is the purpose and perhaps flinging yourself from your bed to the floor is not that safe ... LEAP AT DADDY ... she lands mostly on me and in progress rolls off and bangs her head against the wooden leg of the crib. So... ask Daddy if he feels just a little bit guilty.
7/16/06
How to know your toddler is internalizing the maternal role
My wife, her sister, and my daughter are sitting on the couch watching Baby Bach with my 8 month old nephew. He starts fussing in his exercise saucer ... there is a pause ... Felicity looks up and says "Ohh, I'll go" and hops up to go get the soother and insert tab A into slot B.
My wife, her sister, and my daughter are sitting on the couch watching Baby Bach with my 8 month old nephew. He starts fussing in his exercise saucer ... there is a pause ... Felicity looks up and says "Ohh, I'll go" and hops up to go get the soother and insert tab A into slot B.
Small steps
Small improvements today. Austin has been taken off the ventilator and is only on supplemental O2. The levels are being decreased so he is much closer to breathing only room air. We keep getting told that the bigger babies improve very quickly once the breathing is sorted out.
They clamped off the chest tube with the thought that the pneumothorax is completely drained. If it does not reoccur they will remove the tube in the next day or two. His color looked a bit better and he looked a little more relaxed. Fingers crossed.
Small improvements today. Austin has been taken off the ventilator and is only on supplemental O2. The levels are being decreased so he is much closer to breathing only room air. We keep getting told that the bigger babies improve very quickly once the breathing is sorted out.
They clamped off the chest tube with the thought that the pneumothorax is completely drained. If it does not reoccur they will remove the tube in the next day or two. His color looked a bit better and he looked a little more relaxed. Fingers crossed.
7/15/06
Trying to ride out the drops on the rollercoaster
You know that it is going to be a bumpy day when the doctor calls you in the morning. My son took a turn for the worse last night shortly after I left and his O2 saturation began to drop and his breathing became compromised even within a 40% O2 environment. When we called last night close to midnight they were minutes from putting a chest tube in his side to relieve a pneumothorax they had discovered via x-ray. The cause is unknown is often happens in the first couple days of life but not later on. The doctor called it strange. Not the reassurnace you necessarily need. They had to take out the first tube (very small) in the night since the pneumothorax was recoccuring and replace it with the standard chest tube to keep it draining. X-rays show that the pneoumothorax was almost completely resolved by 11:30. He's still got the IV plus a line into the artery in his wrist for blood work. At least they are giving him a little morphine. Three more days on the ventilator and we'll see where he is at. It's been a very tough day. Two steps back, one step forward.
You know that it is going to be a bumpy day when the doctor calls you in the morning. My son took a turn for the worse last night shortly after I left and his O2 saturation began to drop and his breathing became compromised even within a 40% O2 environment. When we called last night close to midnight they were minutes from putting a chest tube in his side to relieve a pneumothorax they had discovered via x-ray. The cause is unknown is often happens in the first couple days of life but not later on. The doctor called it strange. Not the reassurnace you necessarily need. They had to take out the first tube (very small) in the night since the pneumothorax was recoccuring and replace it with the standard chest tube to keep it draining. X-rays show that the pneoumothorax was almost completely resolved by 11:30. He's still got the IV plus a line into the artery in his wrist for blood work. At least they are giving him a little morphine. Three more days on the ventilator and we'll see where he is at. It's been a very tough day. Two steps back, one step forward.
7/14/06
We visited our son today. He is in the high oxygen environment. It is hard to watch his chest almost collapse on each breath. He is starting to digest food and O2 saturation is good. It is hard to stand there and not be able to do anything but watch. He was alert and looking at me when I arrived and looked calm. He was more unsettled when they were feeding him but seemed to fall asleep eventually. It's only been 7 days. Patience, grasshopper.
7/13/06
7/12/06
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