0712 Ryan is 7 days old today! Happy one week! The results from yesterday’s echocardiogram are in. The valve on RT’s heart is open, he has PDA. They start him on a treatment of acetaminophen (tylenol) which can help the valve shut. They remind us that PDA is not that abnormal Continue reading “July 28 2016”
Month: August 2016
July 27 2016
1254 Just visited RT. The fluid they have been getting out during suction is darkening.
July 26 2016
This morning we are told that during suction they have been getting a large amount of fluid from his lungs and some blood, likely from irritation from his breathing tube and re-intubation.
July 25 2016
One of the many wonderful nurses at the NICU made a scrap book style poster for RT to hang on the wall above his incubator. It has his name, birth weight, length, time, and date of birth. It is too cute. I could not be any more happy with the amount of love these nurses have for RT.
July 24 2016
I arrive back at the NICU at 0700. The weight on his board is now 620 grams. He has lost a little bit of weight which is normal for newborns, and underatandable due to stopping feeds for blood transfusions. We are going to try and get RT off of the ventilator today. The nurse pages the Dr to notify him they are about to try. We wait around for a while. The nurse and respiratory technician get set up to remove the ventilator. We wait for a while. Page the Dr again.
July 23 2016
I continue to run each little bit of colostrum we manage to get up to baby throughout the night.
In the morning labs come back good with the exception of white blood cell count. We still don’t know why.
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