Diaper Overload

Today was another good day. Nancy was his nurse during the day. She has cared for Henry before. The exciting part of the day was in the morning when his diaper leaked and he made a big mess out of his bed. Grandpa Henry was pleased that this gave him a chance to hold Henry for a few minutes while Nancy changed the bed.

Nancy decided to put a bigger diaper on him to try to avoid the leakage situation. I'll try to get a picture of the different sized diapers. They are just so small. We moved him back down to the smaller size later because the others are far too big. That graduation will have to wait for another day.

Kate visited in the afternoon. She did kangaroo care for a couple of hours and Henry responded well.

Kate and I went in again in the evening. Lydia was his nurse for the night. She had not cared for Henry before. I did kangaroo care for a couple of hours. He was more restful that he had been the previous night and pretty much slept the whole time.

He is now up to 1110 grams (2lbs 7oz). That is a 70 gram increase from the previous night. Now we wait and see if he pees it all off tomorrow when he gets his lasix. He is also off the tpn which was the replacement/supplement for breast milk that he has been getting. Hopefully he will continue to digest the milk and won't need the tpn again.

Nadine stopped by to check up on Henry. She commented on how he's starting to get some cheeks and his color looks pretty good. Due to some internal politics with the scheduling she was not taking care of him tonight.

We had another visitor, Edna. She is a volunteer in the nicu who holds the babies and feeds them. They are known as the "cuddlers". She's been volunteering there for 8 years and comes every other Friday night. She also works at the U of A as a staff member in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences which includes the communication department that Kate and Hank work in. She had even attended Hank's retirement party. She reassured us that Henry was in good hands.