Sunday, February 13

Dinky is doing pretty well today. The nurse teases us that he acts up whenever we get there. Apparently he had been having a good morning but when we got there he started having episodes of bradycardia and desaturations. They relate this to a few things: tube placement, immature lungs, sensitivity to touch. Hopefully as he grows and gains weight this will be less of a problem. He did tolerate a little feeding (1 mL of breast milk) through his g-tube. As longs as he tolerates that he will have 1 mL every 3 hours and then they will increase it tomorrow. This will be a big step for him because he needs to gain weight. He's down today to 940 which is about 2 pounds 1 ounce. We are also anxious for his bilirubin (related to liver function) to improve so that they can get rid of the phototherapy and eye patches and we can get to know his face a little better. Unfortunately his number was a little high today (a little over 5, it needs to be at 4) so we'll be watching that. .....