Good Morning!

Sorry, I was a slacker last night. I was exhausted plus I had my first ever skin to skin with the baby, it was amazing to finally get to really cuddle with him :) :) :) So let's see. First off the brain scan is officially negative, doc says everything looks good. Yesterday he had more episodes of desaturations. He's doing this thing called periodic breathing where he'll take a few breaths and then stop completely and start back up again. Totally normal for a lil guy like this but still scary especially one episode where he started to turn...well let's just call it not very pink. But this morning his breathing is a lot more regular so praise God! The doctor says that with preemies his age the pattern is that they come out not breathing well, they do great for a couple days, then on day 7-8 the breathing isn't as great and takes a dip and it will take a little while to get back where we were. In the NICU we are learning as lot of patience. Digestion wise we are doing a little better. Lil man pooped on his own last night, no suppository necessary. His aspirates are looking better, no funky green color. We are upping the feelings to 3ccs every 3 hours. The doc told me that I need to remind him when he's a 200 lb football player eating us out of house and home that when he started his feedings he was getting 1/5 of a teaspoon every 6 hours. The doc got the central line in yesterday and the UV line came out. So now I can do skin to skin with him.  He has an echocardiogram on the schedule for later today, he has a heart murmur that's starting to get louder that they want to investigate. Most likely it's a PDA, something that should resolve on its own but we want to make sure. That's it for right now. Will update you later