Kate stayed home tonight at my urging. She had very little sleep last night, even less than she usually gets, and needed to get some rest. It's not a bad thing to have some father son time as well.
Emily was his nurse tonight. She has cared for him many times and does a great job. He weighed 1830 grams tonight which is the same as he weighed last night. His oxygen was at 45% at .075 liters of flow which is still very good. I think the resident Hans was a bit surprised by his progress on the oxygen lately. He came in earlier today and checked it and said "Is he really at .075?" Kate and I proudly confirmed that he was indeed. Joyce has done a great job on this. Some nurses just want the oxygen to be at a level that the kid won't de-sat so they don't have to bother with them. Joyce is taking it on almost as a personal crusade to get him off of the oxygen, and we really appreciate that.
The nicu was rather loud tonight. It sounded like there was a half dozen or so babies crying at any given time. The census has increased I believe to 24 at this point. They still have pod 4 closed off so that leaves 27 slots so things are getting crowded. I'm very thankful to be in the isolation room.
Nothing real interesting happened tonight. We thought about hitting some night clubs or going to the casino but finally decided on just hanging out in the nicu. Henry was behaving in a way that I feel is his norm at this point, sleeping for a few minutes and then turning purple in the head and fussing for a few seconds, sometimes accompanied by a de-sat. I have been guessing it is gas. I held him in various positions, changed his diaper, he was fed but nothing changed the behavior. However, before I left I put him down and wrapped him up real tight and wedged his pacifier in his mouth. The behavior stopped and his sat's went to the high 90's and he looked very content. So maybe it's just a sign that he isn't happy when he acts that way. Being able to read minds would be real handy about now.
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