A Good Father's Day

Henry had a pretty uneventful day. Mary was his nurse in the morning and Kathy is on tonight. He was put on the diuretic again and had 47 gram and 50 gram diapers right afterward. Those were records for him. A normal diaper weighs somewhere around 5 -15 grams. The next one was 14 grams, so it looks like the flood is over. He was beginning to look rather puffy, so it is good that he shed some of that extra fluid. His weight came down a little bit to 1010 grams (2lbs 2 oz) tonight. Kate and I both thought it would have come down farther than that, so we are happy.

He had the last dose of his antibiotics. I expect that some time this week he will be started up on milk again. Kate and I are fine with them waiting a little while before doing this. It seems they have a tendancy to rush things. The doctors have a meeting in the morning on Monday to lay out a plan for the week so we should know more then.

His scalp iv is was taken out this evening. That is a bit of a relief. It was rather scary trying to move or hold him knowing there was a needle stuck in his head. Now he will be able to wear his cute little hats again.

This morning they flushed his stomach with saline. They had checked his stomach and found some fluid early. They put 3 mls of saline down his stomach and sucked it right back out and repeated that 3 times. They got some mucous out on the first flush and then just saline after that. I think that is a good sign, don't want anything too interesting to be discovered.

I visited in the early afternoon and Kate stopped by later in the afternoon. I was able to hold him for about an hour and a half. He was fairly active but content. He wakes up and looks around. We try to keep a beanie baby in view so he has something to look at. He didn't have any serious apnea or brady spells today. He occassionally set the alarm off for a second or two but nothing to be concerned about.

For father's day the NICU employees made up shirts for all the fathers. They have the baby name above a set of the babies foot prints and NICU 2007 below. It was very thoughtful and much appreciated.