Tuesday

Hi all! We were blessed with a good  night last night and a good day today! Last night he had less episodes of desaturation while being on the new machine. He even pooped once which is a good sign and if he continues to behave himself, they will start giving him some milk again tomorrow. He's definitely starting to feel better. We know this because he's having less episodes of desaturation, he's more feisty when we wake him up, and he's starting to breath more above the vent. They were considering getting him off this machine and putting him back on to normal CPAP tonight but the nurse said that it would be better to let him have a little more time letting the machine give him some breaths, so he can just sleep and let the antibiotics do their thing. Plus when he gets into a very deep sleep,  its basically the machine doing all the work still. But overall, there is a noticeable difference from yesterday. Yesterday it was basically just the machine doing all the breathing for him, so scary. I spoke with the doctor, we should be finding out exactly what kind of bacteria is growing by morning. They do know however that the antibiotics hes on now are working, but once they know exactly what bug it is, he will get a more specific antibiotic.

Tomorrow he will have to get a lumbar puncture to rule out meningitis. The doc says its highly unlikely that he has it, seeing how well he's responding already to the antibiotics however better safe than sorry. The doctor said that his infection is not at a point where its life threatening, even if it is meningitis because we caught everything so early. He says if it is meningitis the antibiotic treatment will just be a lot longer in duration. I just hate that the lil guy has to go through getting poked in the back. The idea of having a needle in my back, freaks me out and was one of the biggest reasons why I didn't get an epidural (that and there wasn't really time even if I wanted one) and was planning on doing a water birth. So for him to have it done is going to be super hard for me. But its necessary and thank God that we have the ability to do tests like this.

He definitely has a lot more spunk, is cry is not only a lot stronger than it has been but a lot louder too. They say in the NICU is the only place you are glad when your baby cries and when your baby poops. This evening when I was changing his diaper it took me forever because he was squirming around so much and kicking his legs all over the place. He is a champ though when they do his heel sticks to check his blood sugars, he doesn't cry but he holds on to my pinky and squeezes real hard when it happens.  This evening he was also trying to push his CPAP off. I had a chat with him about how if he starts breathing better we can work on getting it off, so hopefully he listens. 

Gramma has been with us all day, hanging out with us and then made some AMAZING chicken pot pie and peach cobbler for dessert. YUMYUMYUM. She's also spending the night with Eli tonight to let me have a chance to get a little rest in my own bed. Omie is coming down tomorrow. Have I mentioned how wonderful our family has been, taking such such good care of us, cuz they have and I can't say it enough. 

Thank you everyone for your prayers, please keep them coming, especially that everything goes smoothly with the LP