Micaiah NICU Day 1 (11.22)

Micaiah is still on CPAP. He had to have his oxygen turned up this morning. The lowest setting it was on all day was 26% (room air that we breathe is 21%). Most of the fluid is now out of his lungs. They repeated the chest X-ray today since he was still grunting a lot this morning but it did not look any worse than yesterday's. His blood sugar levels were fine.

Wesley said we were spoiled being at VCH for our first NICU. I said maybe we should try Erlanger for the next one. Ugh. Here, they only let parents/grandparents in the NICU......no aunts, uncles, friends. The worst part is that they won't let us hold him until he's off of CPAP. We held hk while she was on CPAP & did lots of kangaroo care with her then too. Nothing has been said about kangaroo care here. Wesley has made a point to tell every person that it's funny how each place is different ..... We got to hold hk then, etc. We're hoping that'll eventually do the trick. I changed M's diaper for the first time today & pee pee went everywhere! It was totally fine with me though because that meant I got to lift him in the air while Nurse Libby changed the blanket underneath him. I think I might be slow every time. Lol. We're praying that he will get rid of the CPAP fast so we can hold him & get out of here faster.

I took over 50 good pics of him today (imagine that!), so I'll add some to this post tomorrow hopefully.

Weight tonight (technically day 3 bc it was 12:25a) was 6 pounds. The big drop could be a matter of scale difference. From now on, it'll be the same scale (his bed) so there shouldn't be a variation due to that.