Have you had a good day lately?

Isaac is doing wonderfully today breathing on his own and making the machines complain
because he isn't doing it its way. That is so much better than what he was doing! They have
gone up again on his feeds top 23 ml and 26 calories, and changed his caffeine from an iv to
oral and I'm pretty sure it tastes nasty because after it went in the feeding tube he literally
threw it up on me. Talk about grose! He went for a record today and let me hold him for 2 1/2
hours and loved every minute of it. The Dr came by and said he was doing great and was
just going to see how he did on the oral caffeine since he was breathing more on his own there
wasn't anything to change except to keep going down on his respirator settings. Thanks so
much for the prayers and please keep them coming and remember all the other babies in their
they all need just as many prayers.

interesting information

stumbled upon this website looking for baby doll patterns for Izzy's Isaac sized dolly,
and thought some might find it informative. Isaac is actually behind on his length and
head girth but they are not worried about that because he didn't have real food for a
couple of weeks and thus the stunted growth.

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preemie growth chart

A Bad Day :(

Well Friday wasn't a very good day for Isaac while trying to hold him(normally he loves this) he pooped
like major poop for such a little guy and the nurses had just gotten him situated on my chest when he
did this so they told him he would just have to sit in it. Well he didn't like this very much so he threw his
typical Isaac fit and made his heart rate drop way too low and had apnea so the nurses had to bag him
and manually breath for him and got him stable so they could start his feeding and he pooped again!
and threw another fit so badly he turned a nasty grey color(not blue, but grey) and thats when the nurses
really ran. they got him back in that bed so fast it wasn't funny he refused to be stabilized and so they
changed his diaper and all was better. He is such a turd when it comes to a dirty diaper and half the nurses
up there know it now so when he throws a fit they check his diaper first. He needs lots of prayers that his
lungs will grow some more tissue and his breathing and oxygenation will get much better so they can take
the nasty tube out. The Dr thinks the tube might be half the problem but won't take it out because his
breathing isn't stable enough. He is 30 weeks gestation and they like to get these little guys able to go home
around 34-36 weeks but they have to be able to breath on their own for the most part.

Growing like a weed

Isaac has had another really good week He is now 2 lb 8 ox and getting fed 22ml milk and 26 calories
He is getting to be a chunky boy and has such a great personality he is going to be a ladies man, but boy
does he demand attention. while holding him last night he threw one of his little fits setting off all the
alarms and th nurse couldn't get him settled down and then she realized that he was poopy. As soon as
he had a clean diaper all was better. Who knew that such a little thing like a poopy diaper could come out
so bad. His respirator settings are slowly coming down he is getting a small dose of caffeine every 12 hours
appearently it helps the babies breath on their own by helping keep the lungs inflated and elevates the
blood flow. I found out they also give it to asthma patients and they give Viagra to preemies too for blood
flow when they have low blood pressure crazy stuff but it works. Anyway Isaac is tolerating everything very
well and there will be new pictures in a couple of days so check the gallery.

A great week

Isaac is doing great he has been dubbed the desat king referring to the sensor that monitors the oxygen levels in his blood (not very accurate but keeps them from having to draw blood too much) He sets this alarm off constantly. The Dr. explained that this is more than likely caused by the breathing tube being irritating and him clenching his throat. So until he can come off the respirator the only other option is to put the tube down his nose and the Dr. said most baby tolerate that even less than down the throat. He is gaining weight and is at 2 Lb 1 Oz and right on track so now we are just waiting for him to grow. He is looking chunky and we will have new pictures up soon.

Pictures

Since everyone doesn't have access to facebook here is a post of pictures.

We are up and running again

wow what a mess it was to figure out what was keeping us from accessing the blog, but now
we are able to access the website and update you guys again.

Isaac is doing great he isn't on any medication, they are just running some saline solution
through the Broviac catheter to keep it open just in case we need it, and he is off the steroids.
His gasses are doing ok they are not the greatest because he does play with the nurses to get
attention and that causes a lack of oxygen in his blood stream so until his lungs are mature we
will continue on this course. I am getting to hold him pretty much every day and wow does he
enjoy that. So for now we are praying his lungs mature. He is right on track for weight gain and
getting breast milk, but he is in the bottom percentile as far as head girth and length so they are
wanting to add some protein powder to his milk to help with that.