Coburn Kids

Caden is doing well tonight! I’m going to launch into all his medical updates now so try to keep up.   Caden’s echo came back perfect, there’s no sign of pulmonary hypertension. They lowered his nitric oxide from 20ppm to 15ppm, they’ll keep him on that for 3 days and we’ll see how that weaning goes. His morphine has been turned down some, they’ll watch for any withdrawal symptoms such as jitteriness, etc. but he seems to be doing well right now.

The little guy kicked out his arterial IV line in his leg tonight! Gave his poor nurse, Bart at the time, a scare when he saw some blood on his blankets. Strong lil’ guy. They decided not to reinsert it but to do heel sticks now to get his blood gas levels. His oxygen is good right now staying between 28-30%. They had to readjust his amplitude on the oscillator from 19 to 20, so not too bad there. Caden has officially gained an entire pound from his birthweight. He weighs 1220 grams or 2 lb. 11 oz. A big clap for him for gaining weight so well.

Caden’s is tolerating his feedings better.  They are going to start increasing them 1cc every 12 hours. So tonight he’ll get 4cc’s and then keep up his 6 hour feedings. Sometime tomorrow they’ll increase to 5cc and so on. He hasn’t had another stool yet but he hasn’t been getting very much so this isn’t surprising. He’s just doing so well and his mommy and daddy are so proud of him. We are going to try to get the girl’s up again this week to see him.