The story so far…Julia is recovering from the birth and her bout with preeclampsia. Nicholas has been in ICU intubated on a ventilator getting surfactant treatments to try to get him breathing properly.
As of 1100, Nicholas has been extubated and is now only got the small nose clips giving him oxygen. He has been responding quite positively to the respiration treatments and the weaning from oxygen is going as well as can be expected. Blood gases are looking great and the number of lines going into him are decreasing dramatically…we might actually get some really good pictures of the boy today and get to hold him which will be really great. Next step is to get his sucking instinct kicking in so he can do that “get the groceries” thing by himself but that’s relatively minor compared to the breathing thing.
Julia’s going to stay one more night due to swelling of the lower extremities…they’re trying to reduce that so she’ll be more comfortable when she comes home.
Other than that, we’re doing well (surprisingly!) on so little sleep…hopefully this is a good omen for when he comes home and we’re doing the 0300 feedings… 🙂
