Caden is now 7 weeks old, yeah! First off, he passed his ROP tests again. We are very surprised, with the amount of oxygen and his length of time on the ventilator we expected some degree of ROP but to see that he has nothing yet… well his eyes are clearly better then his mommy’s and daddy’s.
Next up, I won’t go on about his nurses the other night again but we noticed his heartrate low the other night (which they didn’t report) and yesterday morning he dropped down into the 80′s and 90′s. What is puzzling is that his oxygen levels have been excellent. He was down to 24% oxygen and holding very nicely when it happened so they ordered some bloodwork and x-rays. All of which came up normal. He’s been good on his heartrate ever since so that was just a minor incident.
Feedings are continuing to go well, he gained 10 grams last night so 1730. He’s giving a bit back on residuals but nothing too concerning.
Adessa has her appointment with the pediatric cardiologist up at Primary Children’s tomorrow. We’ll be sure to update you all on how that goes.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Yeah for Caden-hope he doesn’t have those nurses again; be sure to let me know about Adessa; I’ll be thinking about her. Love Gram