Full Feeds

Day 27
June 4, 2011

At "full feeds" now... 21ml's with additive Prolactin that gives the breastmilk more calories so he can really beef up! They also started him on Potassium today to help his electrolyte numbers since they're on the low side and that is mixed with the milk as well. Hopefully sometime tonight they will decide if they want to take out his PIC IV line in his foot. They use that line for his nutrient fluids and now that he is receiving more milk he doesn't necessarily need that line anymore. 

They will try to give him his Lasix, that is used to help dry out his lungs through his feeding tube as well, but it does not work as well given orally so if they need to give him a new PIC line in a couple of days because of that they will.

He's just under 3lbs! Weighing in at 2lbs. 14oz.'s. 

The xray of his lungs the other morning showed some damage of a little collapsing and still a little "wet". They always try to rule out infection in his lungs by getting blood work. So to help his lungs, they changed the ventilator setting around and he seems to be doing well with the changes and recovering from the "d-sats" on his own (which is good). No infection as of now either. 

Kidneys are o-k, but specialist have been keeping a close eye on him to make sure they are functioning properly. Urine output is pretty good too, he actually sprayed all over his bed and isolette this morning and needed all new bedding! 

Head ultrasounds coming back with no significant changes and they have been pushed out to every two weeks. 

Held him on Wednesday for only 25 minutes because he was just not into it and it showed on the monitors and I could just tell too. I did however hold him on Thursday for much longer, over an hour! It was way different that the day before and he couldn't have been any better! It must have been because Poppy was there again! 

Overall he's hangin in there and staying really strong given all of his circumstances. The doctor's at this point are trying to balance his fluids since that seems to be affecting most organs right now.