October 18th - woohoo!!!!!!

Well Master Brody is having a rough time digesting his food. His acid reflux is causing him more problems. He may either have reflux because of the constant flow of air from the CPAP or it is a common issue with babies that are born as premature as he was or unfortunately inherited from me but mine didn't bother me until much later in life. Trying to help, his feeds have been slowed to process over an hour instead of 20 minutes but still during his feeds his heart rate gets way too low and his saturation level also plummets, that's when we have "little boy blue" - definitely not good. And every time these spells happen he has milk in his mouth. (which he is still being fed from a tube directly to his tummy - milk shouldn't be in his mouth) We will see what Dr Pete wants to do about it in the morning. He only has one more day of antibiotics. And he started Lasix today for fluid retention. The apnea spells are few and far between (yet increased desaturation and bradycardia spells). He is keeping his temperature up and is still bundled in a blanket, he seems to rest better like that. Typical day in the NICU, two steps forward one step back.

But we will celebrate today!!!!!!!!! October 18th - Brody is one month old! What an accomplishment. Especially when I think that I had 4 previous miscarriages, that it took 3 1/2 years for him to be conceived, and that the mortality of the pulmonary hemorrhage he had is 30-40%. Wow, my God is amazing! Thank you Father for our son.