Day 17- August 4, 2011 (It's a Poop-fest!)

Noah's Stats

Oxygen Level: High 20s, 30s, 40 :-(
Oxygen Machine: Nasal Canula
Bowel Movement: Oh yea...
Weight: 2lb 10 oz
Day Nurse: Lori
Night Nurse: Doreen

Today was kind of a little dip in our roller coaster in the NICU. Dr. Lugo called to let me know how well Noah was doing and how he wanted to reduce his Liters Per Minute (LPM) from 5.0 to 4.0. The goal of this LPM is to get down to 2.0 LPM and then I think they will think of changing Noah's oxygen machine to maybe a more advance Nasal Canula, or an open crib. Well...Noah's oxygen stats started to decrease to less than 84, which means that he neeed more help breathing. When this happens, the nurse has to increase his oxygen level (or percentage). She kepts increasing it from mid 20s, to 30s, and finally hit 40...she contacted the Dr and he actually said to INCREASE his LPM to 6.0 :-(. Once Noah got to 6.0, he was doing much better and Lori was able to wean him down from 40 all the way down to 33%! By the next morning, his oxygen level was down to 25% at 6.0. It was just a little sad to know that my baby had to increase his LPM on the same day that the Dr thought to decrease it. I would hope that he continues to improve on this in order to not have to go back to the CPAP! So please continue to keep Noah in your prayers, so he can get his act together and learn how to breathe effectively so he reduce his oxygen levels (in due time of course!)

Now...for today's entertainment...I was changing Noah's 5 o'clock diaper and he had a little bit of poop in there. I went ahead and wiped his little booty, but it seemed as if he wasn't done with his bowel movement. I told the nurse that maybe we should hold off and wait until he was finished, but she told me to go ahead and change it. Well...while i was in the process of cleaning up Noah, he decided to fart in my hand and start his pooping movement all over again! Thank goodness I had a diaper under the 1st one so it was able to catch his 2nd dose because it...was...HUGE! We all were disgusted but laughing at the same time. Noah decided to have a poopfest today. I'm going to see if this continues to be a routine.

Last but not least, we finally got to see Auntie Laura! Thanks so much for coming to visit my little man ;-)