Day 58 - Samuel Update

Samuel is doing wonderfully. He is now 2 months old! He hit the 8 week mark yesterday! Isn't that crazy? He is now doing two 15-30 minute "sprints" off of the cpap, per day, as he tolerates it. Last Tuesday they tried to do two 15 minute sprints and he didn't have a good night after that. He had more desats and had a couple of heart rate drops so they gave him a 2 day break and started up again on Friday. He is doing well enough with the sprinting that they will continue with the two a day for 15-30 minutes each time, for a few more days probably until he shows improvement with those sprints. He gets pretty tired after 10-15 minutes or so off of the cpap and he isn't able to bring his oxygen saturation back up. On monday, I went down to see him earlier on in the day (thanks Mary for watching Noel;)) and did skin to skin with him while he was off of the cpap. He did okay but it wasn't the best sprint. Morgan and I got to go lastnight together to see him (thanks Mom for watching Noel;)) and I got to do skin to skin with him again without the cpap and he did about the same. He does good in the beginning but he gets tired pretty fast. Overall though, he is doing amazingly. Some of the nurses are more daring and leave his beanie off so the tubing isn't wrapped tight around his head, so that his head can start to get back to a normal shape. Our little guy is a cute little conehead right now;) He's got the greatest big/little ears too. His hair is coming in more and he now weighs 4 lbs 6.8 oz. He gains a little each night.

Monday night.

Lastnight, skin to skin.
This is what his monitor looks like. The green number on top is his heart rate. The middle blue number is his oxygen saturation. They like him to be at least between 85-93%. This was while he was off the cpap in the beginning when he was doing well;)

Our little blessing.