Tuesday, September 6

Okay everyone, prayers are being answered!  Isaac gained another 5 grams yesterday. Not much, but it is progress in the correct direction.  Today when I arrived to see my son I saw a gorgeous head of dark brown hair, a cute little nose, two little ears.... which meant.... no C-PAP!!! They had put him on high flow oxygen at around 9:30 this morning.  I arrived around 10 and he had good oxygen saturations.  Better than the other day when I held him and they removed his oxygen and he quit breathing.... I think that was Thursday or Friday's post.  Anyway, they said he might not stay on the high flow but they were trying it.  I held him for about 20 minutes before nurse Alex said he should be put back in the isolette.  While I was holding him he had some bradies and desaturations so she thought it was best to return him.  However, when David went back this afternoon he was still on his high flow... So... he still needs to gain weight to improve the strength of his lungs.  I guess once he starts gaining weight a lot of things will change.  I think I have told everyone that though.

They are increasing his food intake to 25 mls every 3 hours still.  Trying to get him to gain weight.  If you know much about breast feeding, they want me now to bring in only hind milk to boost up the calories.  Otherwise they might give him a high caloric formula every other feeding to help increase his weight gain.  They are going for 15 to 20 grams a day.

My parents are back up helping me this week to prepare for me returning to work next Monday.  I hope to be ready physically, mentally and spiritually... oh and hoping to have a house that doesn't need cleaning or any laundry done.... I know the first week will be tiring for me but like I always say to myself "I am Talinda Iverson and I can do anything and overcome anything!"

Oh, I forgot to tell you... Arianna is on her way to earning some fish for her fishtank that Nena and Poppy bought her.  She gets rewarded for good behavior and she needs one more good behavior mark to earn herself some fish!!! However, if she has some bad behavior (pouting, telling someone no, etc) then she has a good behavior mark removed... Come on girl!  Earn your fish!