Easy Going Thursday

Henry had a good day. He had slept through the morning. Lisa G. placed his blue beanie bear at the top of his head and his beanie tiger at his feet to cocoon him in his bed. I did skin-to-skin with Henry for a couple hours in the afternoon. He was a bit fussy at first. During skin-to-skin, Henry lays on his tummy, but he didn't like that today, so Lisa G. helped put him on his side. Overall, his sats looked very good. My mom stayed with Henry when I left around 4PM.

In the evening, Sue was Henry's nurse. We had seen Sue around the NICU, but this was the first time that she was assigned to Henry. She said that Henry weighed 1,040 grams tonight. He's down 10 grams from last night, but today was a Lasix day, so that isn't a huge surprise. It was a pretty quiet evening. Pod Four was very quiet, which was nice. Jeff did skin-to-skin with Henry for around two and a half hours. Henry did a little surfing, but he rebounded from it on his own, which is good.

When we left, Henry was getting 3.5 ml of milk per hour. It should increase to 4 ml per hour at midnight. Sue said the area around his PIC line looked fine, which is good.