Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Doing Really good.

Hello everyone, Edward is doing really well, We are really starting to see some big improvements. Today Edward continued attempting to bottle feed with a new type of bottle and a new position and did extremely well. He was able to get 15cc via the bottle and his full feed is only 33cc. also he is now 3 lb. and 15 oz. and has made the weight requirement to be move out of the Isolate and into a little crib/baby bucket. They are working on getting him weened off of he isolate by slowing dropping the maintained temperature to help him regulate his own temp. Once Edward can maintain is own temperature he will be able to be moved into his very own baby bucket. We are also seeing a good improvement on his oxygen needs. the doctors have again lowered the oxygen pressure flow down to 1.5 liters and Edward seems to be doing fine with the change. although we have been noticing that he often pulls out his own nose tube and stays pretty stable just breathing room air for up to about 10 min. This is really exciting to see due to the fact that before we get to bring him home he has to be able to breath nothing but room air for 45 min unassisted with out desating. Until now we didn't think we would ever be able to bring him home. I really want to thank all of you for all of you thoughts and prayers, they have really been a blessing.

David.
Bottle feeding

I'm not very happy.

My new talent.

1 comment:

  1. Wow! This is very exciting to see Edward do so well with his bottle feeding and with his ability to breathe without the oxygen support for a while. We will continue to pray specifically about these things. Also, we pray that you are strengthened every day by God's supernatural strength. We love you! Grandma and Grandpa Menken

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