Week in Review

Wow! It's been a week since I last posted. Well it flew by, Baker had a very eventful week. O.k. the little man has been up and down with his breathing support. Bradycardia has slipped back into the picture and no one can explain it. This is a slowing of the heart usually under 80 beats per minute. He wasn't having these episodes at all for the longest time, or his heart rate sometimes would slow but not below 80 bpm. Yesterday he had a bunch of them, today not so much. His doctor couldn't explain why. One variable was his breathing tube, the nurse pulled it back a little and he didn't have many today.

They are still trying to figure out why his breathing is unstable. Some days he does great, some days he doesn't do so well. The doctor ordered a chest x-ray and found some stuff in his chest? I'll have to ask her tomorrow about that, sometimes it takes a day to mull over what his doctor said because she is very good at talking Neonatologist-Speak. She ordered a course of a diuretic Lasix to clear up any (possible) fluid in the lungs. (Pulmonary edema).

His Doctor also went over her plan to get Baker off of the Ventilator. She is going to soon give him an IV steroid and then pull the tube out and see how well he does. He will get a small series of these shots. He may or may not like it, if he doesn't then they will put the tube back. If he does then very cool another Milestone conquered.

He has crushed one more milestone this week, he has hit and surpassed the magic weight of 1500 grams. 1500 grams is when he's allowed to wear clothes, be swaddled and held, and is so much closer to holding his own body temperature. He has some micro preemie outfits and he's actually too big for most of them.. (see pictures below).

Baker will be 8 weeks old tomorrow morning, wow I can't believe it's been that long.