Day 2

While I was in the hospital recovering last Thursday I made notes for myself in my phone of everything that was happening. These are my notes copied and pasted straight from my phone:

9/24 day 2

3:15 AM I just called down to check on Logan. They said they are weaning him off of the oxygen. He's gone from 40% to 25% and the cpap is working. That's the thing they did last night to help inflate his lungs. She said his retractions are getting much better but he's still breathing kind of fast. So they're going to leave him on the cpap until morning. They rechecked his blood work and his co2 and oxygen levels have improved. Im hoping and praying for more good news in the morning!

7:10 went to see Logan. They said he's doing ok but is still breathing quick and has refractions when he inhales. They had to bump his oxygen back up. He held onto my finger. It was sweet. 

Nurse this morning is Vilate

10:00 the dr decided to give him surfactant to help his lungs so he doesn't have to work so hard to breath. 

I checked on Logan throughout the day and he seemed to be doing better after they gave him the surfactant.  They did need to give him extra iv fluid to flush out some co2. His refractions weren't as deep as they had been. He seemed to bed doing better and was a lot more calm throughout the day. When I saw him before they gave him the surfactant he was upset and pulled his nose mask off twice, then pulled his stomach tube out. He was being feisty. But he did calm down and things seemed to be steadying out. 

Around 8 PM a different pediatrician came in to talk to me. Dr. Pavich had gone home for the night. The new pediatrician told me that they had done another blood gas test, where they test the blood for co2 levels in the oxygen and how effectively it's being gotten rid of. He said that Logan's levels were going back up and because of that and because he had been on the cpap for 24 hours they were thinking about transferring him to a different hospital with a higher level of care nicu. He said they were going to retest him in an hour and if his levels hadn't dropped they'd start looking into that. I kind of lost it at that point. I feel like I've been on a roller coaster since he's been born! He was fine and doing better then he was worse all of yesterday and then again today! It's so overwhelming. His blood draw at 9 came back with improved numbers so that was a relief. They're doing another one at midnight.  All I can do is pray that it will be improved and that nothing else will pop up and that he can just keep improving and keep stabilizing.

So many wires.  The helmet, mask thing is the Cpap.

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Nathan came to visit me in the hospital.  We shared a milk shake.  He wasn't able to meet Logan because he's too young.  Only siblings over 2 can visit the level 2 nursery.

Logan has some pretty big feet!  No wonder my ribs and sides always hurt so much while pregnant! ;)