December 11, 2011

An update from facebook:

"Jacob is doing good. He was given apnea medication because he forgets to breath when he is sleeping but its all better. He can breathe on his own without the machine (but we don't know for how long).. he moves a lot so sometimes the thing goes down to his lips. Nurse took about 10 minutes to put it back because she said there was no urgency that the monitors would show if he wasn't breathing (grrrr but the again that made me happy because I did seem him breathe on his own.) He had a blood transfusion yesterday. He likes being on his tummy now. He weighs 1090 grams and the nurse measured him and he is 36 1/2 cm. He is taking 2ml per hour of breastmilk and tolerating it. A doctor that told us in the beginning of all the problems that a 24 weekers can have came to  talk to us and he said that Jacob has gotten over the major hurdles. He looked really happy and congratulated us once again. The next thing is his 1 month brain xray which the previous had showed no hemmorage, let's pray that this one is good too. The doctor said that usually if they would have had a problem it would have showed in the first week of life. Now we need to get him off the hhnc, hopefully he gets no infections and  NEC, also his eye examination, and start kangaroo care. I heard him cry again yesterday when the nurse was doing the blood pressure. Sorry this is long!"