Celebration

When we first got into the NICU all our nurses, doctors, and other NICU friends told us to celebrate the good days because they will carry you through the hard days. The last last week and a half we have been celebrating big time around here. It seems like from one day to the next it just clicked with Carter what he needed to do. We have gone down on his vent settings daily. He is now on a rate of 20 and a pressure rate of 6 which are both the lowest he has ever been. His oxygen levels have been between 21% (which is room air) to 27%. We actually started talk of ext abating him off the ventilator. The doc wrote the order that if he self ext abates meaning pulls his tube out on his own to let him have a go at it. Our move after that will be to put him on c-pap. I am so excited for him to move onto the next milestone, but will be sad to not see his little face as much because he has to wear a hat all the time. The thing that makes me most excited about c-pap that I will be able to hear him. With the ventilator you can't hear anything. Weird that he is a month and a half and I have never heard him cry. His brain bleed continues to look better each week and we are so happy about that. Yesterday he had to get another transfusion which meant we had to stop feedings again. So now we start the road of getting back up to full feeds which shouldn't take him too long because he does so well with them. He does have reflux so we moved his feeding tube to his nose and stretched his feeds out to over an hour which has seemed to help a lot. We are so proud of Carter he is kicking some serious NICU butt around here. "go Carter go...go Carter go" that's what Boston chants around the house cutest thing ever!


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