Coburn Kids

Mommy went up to visit Caden tonight and the little guy was so mad! Wow. More about that later. Caden is officially stable enough to be moved into the next nursery. Wahoo! So he’s sharing the room with a cute little girl, twice his size, and it’s so much quieter and darker. There are only 2 kids per room in this NICU area so it’s a much more relaxed atmosphere.

Caden is still on 15ppm Nitric Oxide, his oxygen settings when I went up there tonight were at 28% but during his temper tantrum he went up to 69%. That lil’ guy just does not like to be messed with! His nurse tonight was even giving him a shot of ativan (a sedative) to help relax him at the time but he was just struggling, his heart rate was almost up to 200, his oxygen shot up and his nurse was just so cute and sweet.  She was doing some gentle containment with her hands, talking very softly to him and he settled himself down so that she could finish suctioning him and giving him his medication.

Caden’s weight tonight was 1280 grams, so about 2 lb. 13 oz. He had a lot of residuals tonight with his food.  They are giving him 5 cc’s every 3 hours now and he was returning 6 cc’s to them. They’ve decided to up his feedings though rather then decrease to see if that will get his tummy moving and digesting the food. He got another suppository since he hasn’t had a bowel movement for 5 days now.

Our poor Adessa is still sick. There is a parasitic disease going around in Utah pools called crypto (for short) where the health department has had to ban all kids under 5 from public swimming pools. It’s affected every pool in the 8 counties where they’ve had to do the bans and it’s resistant to chlorine. Last Wednesday, Daniel had the girls at our communities splash pool and we believe that this is what Adessa has been experiencing and going through the last couple of days. Her symptoms are spot-on for it; stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea as well as the symptoms showing up several days after becoming infected. There’s not much to do but keep her hydrated and try to make her feel better.