Oxygen Level: Mid 20s
Oxygen Machine: Nasal Canula
Weight: 2lb 14 oz
Day Nurse: Jenn
Night Nurse: Anna
Noah appeared to have a peaceful day today. They had ordered a chest X-ray for this morning in order to determine if he was receiving too much oxygen in his little lungs, and to see if they could reduce the amount of oxygen that he was getting (pretty much reducing it from 6.0 LPM to 5.0 LPM). I don't know if you remember that sometime last week, Dr. Lugo wanted to go ahead and reduce his LPM to 4.0 but then all of a sudden, Noah was needing a lot more oxygen and they had to increase his level to about 40%. Because of that, they had decided to increase his LPM from 5.0 to 6.0. That was a hard day for me. A little dip in our NICU rollercoaster. But today.....Dr. Bernstein reduced him down from 6.0 to 4.0!!!! Woot Woot! I think the lowest this machine goes is to 2.0, so we're pretty much halfway there! I think from here, he either gets another kind of canula, and then it's open crib time (i may sound redundant if i wrote this in yesterday's update...sorry!).
Other changes that happened today is that they moved his feeding tube from his mouth to his nose. This is good for him because when the feeding tube was in his mouth, he usually kept his mouth open while sleeping. Having the feeding tube in his nose allows him to keep his mouth closed while sleeping, and possibly taking a pacifier without any inhibitions. It also helps that his mouth is closed so that he can retain as much oxygen as possible. I'm excited for the change and hope that it all works out for the best. Like i always say, God is driving this train so we have no reason to worry!
Noah...I love you, you've made me One Happy Momma :-)
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