Little stinker!

Well everything medically speaking is going good we are waiting for his lungs to mature and for him
to put on alot of weight. Until his lungs are better the little stinker likes to play a game with the
nurses where he holds his breath to make the oxygen sensor alarm to go off so the nurses come
running and he gets attention and the oxygen sensor shows he's excited and getting lots of oxygen
in his blood stream , but as soon as they walk away he makes it drop again. He did this while I was
holding him once but ignoring him by talking to a group of the staff and I asked him if he was happy
because he got some attention and he smirked just like Nate does. After that we all laughed and he
got an even bigger smile on his face and opened his eyes.

Excited,Elated, Extatic,

well I think you get the idea from the title Isaac is doing wonderfully. He had his last dose of antibiotic today and he is getting some fortifier in his milk because he is back down to 1LB 13OZ but he is tolerating his milk very well and they keep going up 1cc every 11 hours. I got to swaddle hold today and he LOVED that. He is definitely a stinker and knows how to get attention and gets a little smirk when he's been naughty. Dr. August is very pleased with his progress and now we are just waiting for him to grow the only trouble he has at the moment is the ventilator and he is too little to be taken off completely so we just have to pray his lungs get stronger and he gains weight.

Awesome Day

We had an awesome day today Aunt Kathy and Uncle Johnny and Uncle O'dell came to see Isaac and I got to hold him yay!(squeals of delight). I held him close to 2 hours and his #'s were wonderful until he stretched and yawned at the same time and choked himself on his breathing tube and then it all went downhill. every alarm you could think of went off his heart rate dropped to the 80s and his oxigenation dropped to the teens they normal do the little bag when it gets to the 40s so when they didn't come I was like um someone needs to check him and then the ventilator said apnea and I was really trying to get someones attention but they were resuscitating another baby and so one nurse comes to check and very calmly says he needs to go back to bed now and you should have seen how quickly every nurse in sight came running even got the respiration guy to stop in the middle of drawing blood on another baby and Isaac was fine as soon as they moved him to the bed it must have really hurt to do all that and get all that attention. Isaac is doing really good but please keep up the prayers we still have a couple more months so he can grow and come home.

A little mix up

Well we had a great day I did not get to hold Isaac today the nurse overstepped her territory and said I could hold him but the Dr. hadn't cleared Isaac for that kind of stimulation especially since he hadn't been on the new respirator for 24 hours and they needed to observe how he was going to handle sooo many changes so quickly so I am pretty sure that if he continues his good behavior then I will get to hold him this week. So for now I am going to relax and enjoy my family being in town for Memorial Day.

An Awesome Week

Wow this week flew by so fast and we have have great news Isaac is doing so good they are giving him 8cc milk every 3 hours
and the ccs go up every 11 hours. His breathing gets better every day and his arterial iv came out Thursday so they oked me to
hold him today and we will be posting pictures asap Kay Macintire is going with us to take tons of pictures. and she does such a
wonderful job.

Wonderful Days

Isaac is having wonderful results on the new antibiotic he is totally off the blood pressure meds and they started him on steroids and he is almost off the ventilator and because they were having problems with the monitor and his PAL(arterial line) they were talking about taking it out because it wasn't doing him any good it is in fact just hindering me from holding him so we are moving in the right direction and I will see what kind of surprises I get when I make it up there this afternoon and again Saturday evening after our crazy day with family and friends.

Never question a parent on their decision! why read on

Nate and I had decided that a spinal tap was unnecessary and would actually cause too much stress on little Isaac and possibly cause some brain bleeds. Well after 3 days of being nagged that there might be spinal meningitis and that would cause more brain damage than a bleed. We caved and well the test results came back negative for any fungus and bacteria so in the end it was unnecessary and a waste of time and money. Nate and I had faith that what they are calling pneumonia wasn't as bad as they thought. Isaac is doing wonderfully and is getting milk again his blood pressure is great and steady, his oxygen level is being weaned off and the vent settings are getting lower every day. Praise God all without steroids and he is proving to be a miracle baby.