Jensen has been a very good boy today. The nurses have stretched the taping on his tracheal tube rather than repositioning it. He appears to not like being on his left side, I think with tube position he starts grabbing it and moving his head a lot which is not great when everyone is trying to keep the tube in place. He is a much happier little man on his back or right side, or even on his tummy.
The nurse with him last night said he was sucking his thumb through the night. He kept trying to get his hand in his mouth and when it was near started to suck, so she helped him by placing his thumb close enough for him to latch on to. What a cute little thing he is. Looks like there may be lots of orthodontic bills to come if he remains a thumb sucker....
His oxygen levels have been lowered by 16% today so he is on 28. It's not good for them to drop too rapidly as if they suddenly go up they can't drop and increase the levels too much or too often to accommodate these changes, it's not good for them, but it has been steady this afternoon.
Jensen is having his alternate day weigh in tonight, which I'm interested in seeing the results of in the morning. Yesterday he weighed in at 911grams, but due to the amount of fluid he was retaining is not his true weight. Previously he was 855g so I'm betting on him being around 880g in the morning. The humidicrib that Jensen is in weighs him so the nurses don't have to move him. They lift him up and zero the scale and lay him back down and read his weight. We recently found out this crib costs $51500...!!
Phil is off to golf in the morning (trying to gain some sort of normality again) so I am braving the docs rounds alone. I'm sure it will be all positive news in the morning, so I'm not too concerned. I've organised a little walk with a friend in the morning...also part of my sort of normality, and also to kill some time while Phil is off flogging little white balls through the grassland.
More special visitors today, and more to come tomorrow....boy it's tough being so popular!
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