He also had his heart ultrasound today and his PDA is not closed all the way still. We'll know more on this tomorrow, but from what I remember it can stay that way if it's not affecting his health and will not need surgery either.
Since he's been back on his respiratory treatments (Xopenex & Polmicort) he seems awake and alert again as we he seemed very fatigued before. They will continue the treatment for a couple more days and see how he does, but other than that his chest xray from yesterday looks good!
He's unfortunately regressed a little with the bottle feeds and breast feeding and we're thinking maybe the respiratory treatments will help him get back on track. He was taking about 80% through bottle and the rest gavage and now he's at about 20-30% bottle. He just seems to get really tired and non interested after a little while, but in my opinion the good news is that he actually takes a bottle and can suck, swallow, and breath all in one. Some preemies have difficulties with just that so I think he can make it through this phase and push on to full bottle feeds before he comes home!
Speaking of coming home, like I said before, we were looking at this Friday or Sunday as our discharge date, but it seems with all that's up in the air, they seem to think his discharge date will be more like 2-4 weeks from now (42-44 weeks gestation) simply because he was such an early preemie and was so sick before. They'd really like to see him come home worry free and no feeding tube! Us too! :)
So looks like I may head back over to Ronald McDonald House so I can stay with Kai throughout the entire day and actually help him with feeds and give him really good TLC!
That is all for now, but I'll keep the updates for his health and discharge date.
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