The liver screen and labs came back clear, so Cohen’s lethargic demeanor is likely from growing. He was much more alert at times, but he also had some deep sleep that caused him to have a few minor A&B’s.
Unfortunately, the nurses had to up his oxygen to 30% (previously at 21%) because his O2 sats were hovering in the high 70’s, rather than high 90’s where they should be. It was lowered to 25% around 5pm. But in true Cohen fashion, he greeted daddy by decreasing O2 sats again, so he went back up to 30%. By 9pm, the nurse had tried several more times to decrease the oxygen percentage to his usual 21%, but had no luck. She was able to get him stabilized in the 90’s at 25%, so that is much better than 30%, but we would like him to be at the 21% he was at this morning. The goal is to get him using no oxygen…so decrease in percentages is what we are looking for, not increases.
Had a rough morning with feeds, but by the afternoon he got it together and digested his entire lunch time feed of 11cc!! Huge improvement of the 4cc a couple days ago. A big reason for the increase in digestion was he was given another enema to help him poop. All I can say is the enema had a positive effect….I just wish he had saved it for daddy :) He had 2 good poops from the enema, and that allowed him to pass more meconium.
John arrived around 5pm and Cohen’s nurse let us do care early so that John could get a full 30min of holding time before we had to leave for shift change.
We also had a visitor!! My friend Stefanie came to visit Cohen. She brought him some adorable preemie onesies and a “germ free” Tigger for his incubator. Tigger has a soft rattle to him, so I shook it for Cohen and he just looked around moving his head side to side. He then threw a fit because it was care time again, but as he was crying he kept stroking and grabbing at Tigger. It was adorable. Thank you so much for visiting us Stef, come back really soon!
In other news, Carter is 16 months old today…..where does the time go?
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