Saturday’s Visit Nov 22nd

I’m just settling into my seat here in the cozy living room of my home. What a winter wonderland we’ve come through. But it was worth it. Mom is upstairs pumping right now… or milkin’ as I like to say. lol

So what happened today.. well today we spent the most amount of time with him. We arrived at the hospital and picked up another 14 parking pass… $32 bucks. But if you consider two visits is 30  then this pass is awesome. We also used one of our gas cards to load up before we left. Thanks to gas prices being down at a lovily 74.6 here in KW it only cost us 26.50 to fill the SUV from 1/4 of a tank. Nice indeed.

We got into the ward by 2:05pm this afternoon. And stayed till 5 I think… usually when we go Lindsay has to pump so that gives me some father son time. Which I’m all over… he he he he – just the cutest little fella. I tired to explain to him about the world of ice cream.. I think he’ll be all over that. And I also told him about Christmas and about the family that wants to meet him. All his cousins and I think he got excited because his heart rate was up pretty high. So I think he liked that.

We had the pleasure of meeting with the AMAZING Dr Fusch. This Doctor rocks, the guys just awesome… he showed us the ultrasounds from the 14th and the 17th. And explained to us what was going on and and how things were gonna affect the brain. Hopefully nothing changes and his brain will get bigger and the blood area will start to get washed away by the fluid in Ayden’s head. But we’ll see.

So Good News… Ayden was born at 790grams dropped to 660grams and is now back up to 760grams. He’s a little dry in that he’s losing a fair amount of moisture.. so they’re gonna increase the humidity in his incubator and they’re starting to give him water in his feeding tube. This will have several possible effects. It should help to lower his heart rate. Should help him to gain some weight and should allow hims to generally be more comfortable.

Mom (Lindsay) is starting to feel a little better – I’ll let her update an article about herself. We treated each other to Swiss Chalet tonight on the drive home – we are in such a good mood after seeing him. He rocks… for possibly having problems with his right leg motor skills. he sure is moving around a lot. Yup using his legs to try and stand up… See they ly him on his tummy and set him on a rolled up blanket with his waist and feet hanging off the other side..  so he’ll push his feet to the end of the bed roll and then push off. This in turn pushes his butt up into the air. So cute, and good exercise for that leg.

This is Ayden’s COT machine. It monitors his oxygen in his blood, and generates a percent of oxygen to blood that it displays. The machine is set to create an alarm if it drops lower than 84% or higher than 96%. This thing really beeps a lot.

This machine monitors the amount of oxygen that they put into his breathing tubes.. the ones that are strapped to his head. You can see here in the bottom left corner that at the time his oxygen was at 40%. They want to get this down to 0%  as that will mean he’s pulling sufficient oxygen from the room air.

This machine monitors Ayden’s IV – and controls what nutrients are going into his IV if any. This one doesn’t beep very often, so I like it.

RSVP isn’t like let us know your coming to visit.. this was the Infection or sickness he had when he was born and let the staff know he was on antibiotics. COT or the Canadian Oxygen Trial is a test group we’re apart of that will help physicians learn which oxygen levels are optimal for development of a baby. Right now it’s a fairly wide range that they’ve over the years learned will not harm the baby. But if they can specify that within 85% to 90% oxygen is better than between 90 to 95% then this could potentially help a lot of new borns in the next years.

And this is the drive home… it’s soooo dark on highway 8 at night… At least it wasn’t foggy.. that’s just scary.

Well little Ayden.. thanks for another great day!

xoxox