April 17, 2010

SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010 7:02 PM, CDT

Liam had a good day yesterday then had a major desat last night and narrowly missed being bagged. Today, he's been a little cranky with a few desats, but overall a decent day. The major issue today is that he developed big bowel loops which put him at a higher risk of NEC (something all preemies are at risk for to begin with) - which is where the bowel dies and they have to do surgery. That was at 3:00...he hadn't pooped and had just thrown a hissy fit, so they're thinking that's what it was, so they gave him a glycerin suppository and watched him and said they'd stop feedings if it wasn't better by 6:00 PM. At 6:00 PM, they were still there, but looked MUCH better, so they're just going to keep a really close eye on him and if they don't go away, they'll stop feedings by mouth and put an IV in for fluids....keeping my fingers crossed there.

I did get to hold him for the first time in 6 days, today!!! We cuddled for 2.5 hours again! :)