6 weeks old

Today Jensen is 6 weeks old. He got his first little award this morning too..

It has been really quite here today, not as many people or alarms going off. Jensen has one of our favourite nurses Dana, from when he first arrived, back with him today and we all feel very relaxed when she has him. I have my dream team of nurses and when I walk in and see them all here I am a very happy mummy.

After the doctor's rounds this morning, Jensen will have 5 more days of steroids and antibiotics to make sure the E.coli is gone and to help him off the ventilator. Over the course of the day he has increased his milk up to 7ml, and once he reaches 14ml he can have the pic line in his leg removed as he won't need the fluids anymore, just breast milk. This evening he has also had the cannula in left hand removed so he has two free limbs again. Dana had to put the Zaky hand over his arm as he was flinging it around with its newfound weightlessness.

He has been doing very well with his breathing today, still triggering a lot of breaths and has had his back up pressure dropped from 50 to 40. The aim is for 30 at this stage. This number is just the ratio of supported and unsupported breaths. A few days ago the doctors dropped him from 50 to 30 in one hit, and he only lasted 40 minutes before misbehaving. So a gradual decrease surely makes more sense, and has responded nicely. He appears to not cope well with big change, so baby steps it is! He has also been in and out of air today.

Little man has looked happy today and has had a nice peaceful day, so much so he has grown some more cartilage in his ears which we now need to roll into shape during cares so it stays flexible and keeps its shape..

And it may just be a cuddle day tomorrow too (big smile)

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