May 6 & 7

May 6, 2013

Today was a big day - our first day of kangaroo care.  Kangaroo care is "Kangaroo care is a technique practiced on newborn, usually preterm, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult. Kangaroo care for pre-term infants may be restricted to a few hours per day, but if they are medically stable that time may be extended. Some parents may keep their babies in-arms for many hours per day. Kangaroo care, named for the similarity to how certain marsupials carry their young, was initially developed to care for preterm infants in areas where incubators are either unavailable or unreliable."

Miles and mommy had 2.5 hours of kangaroo care today.  Unfortunately, since the tubes are so small that help me to breathe, one of the tubes got dislodged and at the end and I had to get intubated but the whole experience was amazing!  It is hard to envision that being this small it is ok to hold me for so long but it is kind of amazing the things they can do!

I was a bit persnickety after the intubation but now I am good to go. I had some good gases and so they are slowly weaning down my oxygen.

Overall, half of the day was great with a little drama in the second half.  We only live in 4 hour increments at this point so one good 4 hour period and one not so good which balances to a 7/10 day!

May 7, 2013

Day 11 - I have gained 4 0Z! I am up to 1lb 11oz.  I also had my first poop today - they were worried because I had not passed any poop since delivery but things are moving!

We could not do kangaroo care today because of the rough go yesterday but hopefully tomorrow.  They were able to wean me off my vent a little more, especially when they put me on my tummy - that makes me really happy!

Outside of that, not much to report.  I might have to have a blood transfusion tomorrow since they took so much blood for my routine blood test today - we will see!