We went to visit Christian at the hospital today around 2:00pm. Michelle was feeling really dizzy and went to go see her OB first. He is always really great about seeing us right away. He examined Michelle and found nothing to be out of the ordinary, but prescribed some medicine to hopefully help with her condition. We also spent some time speaking with the billing department at the hospital in regards to paying for Michelle's delivery. Got to love insurance companies and their lack of maternity coverage.
Christian is still continuing to breathe on his own while being off the respirator. The nurse told us today that he had a few episodes between yesterday and today in which he stopped breathing for a short while. She said that the little ones are prone to doing this, as they sometimes forget to breathe. He actually had an episode where his heart rate dipped very low and he had stopped breathing right at the moment we came in to see him, and obviously we were in a panic. However, the nurse calmed us down, thankfully, and explained the situation to us. She also told us that he is pooping regularly and is doing very well otherwise. Today is the first day that we saw him laying on his stomach- he was soooo cute! The nurses put his little monkey in the incubator with him and his new green "Lucky" blanket on top of the incubator. It's so hard to say goodbye to him at 6:00pm when the nurses are changing shifts. We never want to leave our little guy.
We really like our nurse, Lee. Though the nurses rotate, we have a few that we really like that take care of Christian more often. Everyone there is really sweet. Christian is doing very well and there is talk of removing a few of his IVs and increasing his feeding frequency if he continues to take well to all of the treatment. They say it is a miracle that at his weight and maturity level that he has breathing on his own for this long without the respirator. We continue to pray for him and love every moment we get to be with him. We will see him again tomorrow.
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