September 21st: Phew! I finally caught up on everything today with the writing. It’s hard to remember everything and just sitting to write without falling asleep. Duke has grown already so much, he looks more human daily rather than a little bird. The nurses and doctors gave me several pieces of good news today
1. The new ventilator is working great and his CO2 count has decreased even more so they can wean him off more. The doctor said the ventilation tube may come out tomorrow and from there we observe how his lung muscles are doing.
2. He is two days without morphine and he is more alert and responds to any and all stimulus.
3. His face has softened since being born, which makes them start to rule out some of their concerns they had early on.
4. His skins is looking more pink by the day so he should be off the kangaroo lights for his jaundice by tomorrow.
5. Tomorrow he may be off the ventilator!!!!!!!! His weaning has been very successful and we are excited to get him off the ventilator, because this means I can hold him for the first time.
Now to take him home means he has to do the following 1. Breathe on his own 2. Maintain his temperature 3. Be able to feed via his mouth. These are goals I know Duke can achieve because with him only being 5 days old he is pleasing the doctor with ever stride he makes. Before leaving they will still need to do a hearing test because often times babies born early have some hearing loss and we will need to see if and how much he has. We will also have to start testing him in a car seat to ensure he is comfortable and there are no problems with him in his seat.
The nurses have commented on how long he is and imagine just how tall he is going to be shortly. Hopefully we can get him into some clothes soon so we can see what size he is in.
**Special Thank you to those from University of Phoenix who had planned to have by baby shower on Friday, Sorry Duke wanted to come a little early. Thank you for what you did to my desk J**
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