Yesterday we were blessed to have some family friends who happen to be professional photographers, come to the NICU and take some pictures of Samuel. They take beautiful and wonderful pictures. They are going to come in every few weeks to take pictures of his progress. Next time they come in, we hope to have Noel involved in the pictures and perhaps have pictures of me holding him "skin to skin". We highly recommend them. Their website address is www.bentonphotography.net and their blog address is bentonphotography.net/blog/. They put together a little slideshow for us. They do phenominal work.
As of this last Sunday, the doctors and nurses weened him off of the vent and onto the cpap machine which is the lowest amount of oxygen support a preemie could have. The cool thing is, is that he is breathing room air, 21% oxygen, which is what we breath. This past week, it was determined from some chest x-rays that Samuel had a condition called pneumothorax where air leaks out of the lung and sits between his lungs and chest wall, causing the lung to collapse. Luckily, it was just partially collapsed and it is as of yesterday, all healed after a couple of procedures were done. The doctor said that if you hadn't known his circumstances in the womb, he looks to have normal size lungs for his gestational age although they are a little smaller than a normal 26 weeker would have. The main concerns now are that he needs to have a bowel movement and that he is a little anemic. Both issues are common in preemies and we are "praying for poop" as we call it and for his iron levels in his blood to increase.
Samuel is now 9 days old and has come far. We sure love our little fighter!
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Terie-what fun chris and I will have "praying for poop!" Thanks for sharing and keeping us updated. He is such a cutie!
Praying for you! And yes he is a fighter! Love you my Goose
Rachel
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