He had his first venture out on Friday to see the pediatrician and this was interesting to say the least. Teresa practiced loading everything with Baker. As you can see by the pictures this is no small feat. Getting Baker into our car requires carrying Baker, the diaper bag, the oximeter, the apnea monitor, his feeding supplies(pump, bag, syringes and tubing) and his over the shoulder oxygen bottle (when leaving the stroller in the car of course). So our next milestone will be shedding the monitors. Even though that day when we have to give them back comes, we will probably not sleep again – they do provide a level of comfort that aids in parental rest.
We are getting adjusted quite nicely to our new life with Baker. We've only had one scare so far which prompted a call to his on-call pediatrician. When I picked up Baker his eyes went screwey. His left eye was looking all the way left and his right eye was looking all the way right. Baker's eyes have been fine since a few weeks after he opened them. He's already lost the lazy eye he had in the beginning and his eyes track really well together. He also went limp and non-responsive and oxygen levels started dropping. We jumped into action, Teresa grabbed baker and started stimulating him and I called the emergency on call number for his peditrician. His oxygen saturation didn't go down that low and he didn't lose that much color and was breathing so it was weird. One of the peditricians in the group called back and while I was describing what was going on Baker came back to normal.
We were told to monitor him, check his temperature and if he got a fever to call back. He then stayed awake and alert longer then he ever had since he's been home.
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