Week 5

Pictures from the weekend - Derc, me, my Mom and Pete before dinner.

Jodi positioned him to hold his own pacifier, it was pretty funny to see! Too bad the pacifier is just about as big as his head.

Trying out a new pacifier today.

Kale is officially 5 weeks old today!! It's crazy to say that time is actually going by pretty quickly. Well, our Drager vent wishes went unanswered today :( Kale had some bad blood gases throughout the night and early morning, and his lung x-rays looked wet. Because of this, they decided to give him 3 doses of Lasix through the day and night tonight to try and dry him out a little and take pressure off his lungs. The Dr. said that if he has a better night tonight they will probably try it out tomorrow. We sure hope so!

Today his weight dropped back down to 2 lbs. 6 oz. This is due to getting the three doses of Lasix, and he may drop more tomorrow as well. He is still tolerating his feedings well and his feeds and vent settings have remained the same. His blood sugars looked better today, they were much more stable.

Kale has been really active lately, especially during his cares. Today after we swaddled him back up after cares were over I peeked in his incubator and he was wide awake, waving his hands around, and once I caught him with a firm grip around his vent tube which makes me very nervous! He somehow managed to get out of his swaddle 5 times before I asked Jodi to re-do it...obviously I wasn't doing something right! Hopefully I'll learn how to do that before he comes home :)

Thanks for checking in - and as always, thanks for keeping our little man in your heart, thoughts and prayers!