Tuesday, 2/15

Sorry to be so late updating everything but we had a bit of a late evening at the hospital. Tonight Martin and I went to a support meeting held in the NICU that was pretty helpful. It was me and 2 other moms, and Martin was the only dad...bless his heart. Dinky seems to be doing pretty well. The good news is he is continuing to tolerate his feedings and weighs 1000 g (2.35 pounds) up from the 2.2 at birth. Go Dinky! His ventilator settings are still a little weird. He was at 45 initially and 40 when we left (which means the machine gives him 40 breaths a minute). The good news is he only requires 21 % supplemental oxygen which is actually room air. And with only 21 % his oxygen saturations are still 98-100%. That's very good news. The bad news is his left lung is collapsed. His lungs keep doing this, one and then the other (this is called atelectasis). It usually resolves when they position him w/ the affected lung facing up. The bad apart about this is that when his left lung collapsed it meant he had to lay on his right side which he can't stand. He can't make any sound but you could tell that if he could...watch out. I touched him a lot today which was nice. He put quite a squeeze on my pinky. It's so weird to see my hand next to him. I have small hands yet they engulf my little baby. I have noticed that Martin's little desk calendar has stayed on 2/4 since Dinky was born (his birthday). I guess neither one of us has had the heart to change it....