Monday Surprise

Jeff and I had a surprise when we visited Henry today. They decided to put him on the cannula. Lisa, his day nurse, was surprised as well. He did well on it, in terms of saturation levels. But the number of breaths that he is taking is a little higher than usual. Lisa said that they might not keep him on it for long, but it will give him a little break from the CPAP hat that squishes his head and the CPAP face mask that often squishes his nose.

We plan to get some more information about how medical decisions are made in the NICU. We really hope that the cannula works, but we are also concerned that he is going to get stressed out. Since they are increasing his feeds by 1ml every 12 hours, I am just concerned that they are asking him to do too much at once. And the nurse practitioner's explanation for keeping Henry on the CPAP last night made sense to me.

So far, he is taking the feeds well. I just called the NICU about 45 minutes ago and talked to Lisa. She said that he only had 1ml residual in his stomach at the 5PM feeding and the residual's color was fine.

I am a little concerned about Henry's color. He continues to look a little less pink than he did a few days ago. I'm going to check out his color again tonight and if it looks strange, I'll ask a doctor about it.