Our Funny Boy

Okay first the statistics and an update and then two funnies, we're so proud he's ours...

He weighed in last night at 4lbs. 1.5 ounces and is just doing great. We had a rough morning yesterday but Jeanie the nurse practitioner was in to see him and made a few changes...

She thought he might be getting a bit lazy and letting the oxygen do the work for him so they turned him down to 2 liters and 23% and he hasn't had a desat since (this was at 1:30 yesterday) so needless to say he did great kangarooing with Travis last night and me this morning (granted he was awake for Travis and asleep for mine). His retic (lab testing if they're producing red blood cells) came back at 3.8 (the normal range is 0.5 to 2.5) so that was great news though his hematocrit numbers are still low.

Also Jeanie increased his feeds to 34ML/1HR so we're back to the one hour but he hasn't had too bad of a time yet as he's still satting well. He seems to be tolerating all the changes really well and they reintroduced him to a pacifier (it's very small and shaped like his thumb) yesterday morning and try to get him to take it while being fed as he will be better able (when we reach 34 weeks) to take a bottle because he's worked on the suck reflex.

This morning he had his first bit of residual though they're not concerned unless he continues to have them. He had 8 ML of residual and 10ML of air in his little tummy this morning, Harla's worried she's in for an afternoon like yesterdays (read on).

Okay now for the funnies which are rather hilarious if I do say so myself...

He had a desat yesterday right before the changes and Harla, his nurse wanted to know what was going on...well she soon found out. When she went to do his assessment at 2pm, boy did she get a surprise. I guess she had taken his diaper off and found that he was a little dirty so Amy, one of our respiratory therapists (who had been dying to hold him but since he's not yet in an open crib she hasn't been able to) walked in and Harla asked her to watch him for a moment. She left him undiapered and he just let her know his thoughts on that. He ended up with poop everywhere but on him and his outfit. It was all over the bedding, it his leads box, underneath the bed and all over the isolette. Harla grabbed his snuggle up out of the isolette and put it on top of the bed however that then smeared it on the outside of the isolette and then she threw it on the floor as she was trying to get everything cleaned up and got it on her pants and shoes. During all this Amy was holding Tennyson and he let a little more go down her pant leg. Apparently it was hilarious, our roommate Darcy's mom I guess laughed through the entire thing. When we got back at 5 however he was happy as a clam.

The other funny occured during Travis' kangaroo time last night. While snuggling, Dana started his feeding and we have been working on sucking on a pacifier while feeding well we forgot to put the pacifier in his mouth and pretty soon he was licking Travis' chest all over. Travis hollered at Dana that our baby was defective, then he latched on and was sucking on his chest and Travis was like Dana, he's broken. She peeked her head around the curtain because she wasn't sure what he was talking about and just started laughing and I was laughing really hard. She explained he was just a baby and we found the pacifier quickly needless to say.

So all in all it was a great and funny day, we couldn't be more blessed by God as our little one is growing like a weed and thus far his body is tolerating all the changes well.

Thanks for all the prayers and time you all give us. We love you guys more than we can say.

Walking in Wonder-
Travis, Lindsay & Tennyson Myers