Weight slightly up. Growing ok, but not as much as folks would like (100g over last week). So they'll be increasing the caloric density of his food - up from 23 cal/oz to 25 cal/oz. So basically we go from a 2:1 ratio of breast milk:formula to 1:1.
Oxygen requirement still hovering around 30%.
Evening
The evening was a little bit more exciting. We arrived around 8pm and I asked to hold him. They pulled Julian out and put him on my chest. He started de-saturating and went down to near 50%. Typically they'll expect some amount of movement to cause him to get a little funky. After about 3-4 minutes we decided to put him back in the isolet.
His stats still didn't come back. They punched up the oxygen to 50, then 60 then 70 then 80%. Still no response. Eventually he settled down. They called over the doctor and respiratory therapist. They decided to get an x-ray, blood gas and check his hematocrit level. And the respiratory therapist dude fiddled with the oxygen supply. After he left and Julian was settled, I noticed the oxygen tube wasn't plugged into the source after all the fiddling. Oy! The x-ray showed nothing. Which by the way, runs Windows XP. Blood gas was normal (not acidotic, normal CO2). Hematocrit eventually came back as 26, down from 27. They decided to put him back on high-flow nasal plugs.
Well that was a fun 2 1/2 hours.
2 comments:
We hope our prayers are reaching you from St Louis Mo. We are the Zurosky's we own Sutter Plumbing and are currently doing work for Mr Drake. He told us about this beautiful grandchild and I wanted to monitor his growth. Our prayers are with you and your family. May God Bless Stan and Shelly Zurosky
I'm sorry to hear of these setbacks, although we are asking a lot of little Julian, so sometimes he needs to tell us to slow down the expectations. He has come so far already, he really has, and in time, no one will ever recognize him for a preemie!
Thank you for sharing your journey and allowing us to pray for Julian.
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