Another day, another night...

We just spoke with Dr. Reddy a while ago. We saw her in the cafeteria when we both were getting dinner.

At this point the plan is to try to get him off the high-frequency ventilator on to the standard ventilator sometime soon. She said the high-frequency ventilator is good for patients with problems with pneumothoraces, but it's not good to keep them on it for a long time.

She's not happy he has not been able to wean his oxygen requirements (still on 83%), but is happy the dopamine requirements have gone down (which is used to bring his blood pressure up). It's gone from 18mcg to 13mcg.

We had a nice "touch time" at 4p. He tolerated it well without dropping his oxygen levels or blood pressure. These are such great times to be able to hold his hand or touch his face and talk to him.

Dr. Reddy believes he will have a good night. She said things tend to stabilize after 48 hours. Certainly she's hoping not to have to call us again.

We've been asked to leave the guest room here tonight, as another family needs it. This (being asked to leave the guest room) has been quite stressful on us. He's not had a night yet where he hasn't had a problem, so we're reluctant to leave the NICU floor. My aunt & uncle live 6 miles away and have offered us a place to stay, but we're considering sleeping in the waiting room. We'll see. The NICU nurse was trying to talk Heidi into leaving so she can rest and allow her body to recover and help her breast milk to come in.

We're going to go see him again here in a bit.

Connor is now 3 days old, and weighs 7 lbs 0.9 ounces.