Sat Surfing

While Jeff and I visited Henry last night (5/23), he spent a good deal of the time surfing on his saturation levels. It's rather frustrating to watch because he had been pretty stable on them over the weekend. Jenny was his evening nurse. We asked her to put him on his tummy (the position he likes best), since he'd been on his back every time we'd seen him over the last few days. She put him on his stomach on a special foam pillow. He, of course, managed to kick his leg out and roll himself over on his side. It didn't look like a particularly comfortable position, but his stats were pretty good, so we let him be.

Janice was his daytime nurse again (5/24). She told my dad (who visits Henry each morning) that Henry weighed 740 grams.

My mom visited Henry around noon. I came a little after 12:30PM. Henry continued to sat surf while I was there. He had some residuals in his stomach, so Janice didn't give him his 11AM breast milk. He had a little bit in his stomach at 2PM, but they decided to go ahead and give him his 2PM 1ml of milk.

I talked a little bit with Dr. Jonathan Wispe. Nothing really new to report. The two big concerns are: (1) keeping his respiration going, and (2) getting the feeds going while avoiding the necrotizing enterocolitis.

Janice said that his blood gases looked good. And, it looks like Henry's blood sugars have stabilized, which is great. According to Dr. McLain, that means that they'll be able to add some sugars to Henry's TPN, which will help him continue to gain weight.