My Son is a Rockstar

Link's doing well again today.  His sodium levels are dropping which are a concern, but perhaps related to his low blood pressure issues.  He's on 6mcg of Dopamine to help his blood pressure, but he should really be weaning off of it.  Other than that, he start at noon yesterday 1 cc of breastmilk every 3 three hours.  He had no residuals and he pooped twice :)  It's amazing how happy poop can make you!  Today, since he's tolerating it so well, he'll be upped to 2 cc's every three hours. Dr. Pynn, the attending on with us for the next two weeks and the doctor the twins had most in their stay, said 2 cc's is still very little, but good for priming his gut for real feeds.  Link also gained 60g over the last 24 hours, getting him to 790g.  His O2 has been consistently 30-40% over the last 24 hours, down from 50-60%.  Room air is 21%, so we're working our way to his being able to tolerate that.

When I arrived this morning, his group of doctors, NPs, and RNs were outside the next babies' room for rounds - we were next - I snuck in just in the nick of time.  But then it turned out that a baby was being delivered, and suddenly the hallway just filled with six or eight people was empty, but their rolling desks with binders, papers, laptops and calculators were there, deserted.  About 20 minutes later everyone was back.  Heather had Lincoln's bed open because she was prepping to put a new IV in.  He needed to add phosphate into fluids, but since he's on dopa they can't do a swing line.  While she was prepping him and then again after the IV was in, I got some good face time with my little man.  We were hanging and chatting (okay, I was chatting, he was looking at me - good enough!).  That time with him today will likely be my highlight for today.

Daddy went up to the hospital this evening to see Lincoln.  He also got some good face time while Lincoln's dipe was being changed.  Dopa is up to 8mcgs, and now Mommy is getting quite nervous about his blood pressure.  Doctors are trying to get to the bottom of why it is so low and needing so much dopa to keep it up.

Also, the highlight of my day may actually have been all 3 girls being really well-behaved and good listeners while they got their hair cut one at a time.  The woman cutting their hair was impressed by their behavior!  Mommy enjoys good listeners and a good compliment.