As we keep saying, "no news is good news, or at least the status quo". Josh has recently been given the nickname "Brady King of the NICU" for his continued preemie struggles. But, as the nurses say this is to be expected from a preemie his age and eventually he'll grow out of it. For now we just continue to watch him and to give him a little rub to help him remember to breathe when he forgets. He has also gotten some extra doses of caffeine and gone up on his oxygen levels slightly to help keep his breathing regular and his saturation levels high. The neo-natal nurse practitioner has assured us that most babies outgrow these Brady incidents around 34-36 weeks of gestation.
In other news we visited on father's day and Evan and Josh took a little nap together. Josh really enjoys being held for about an hour. At about the hour mark he usually gets a little stressed out from all the noise and stimulation of the NICU. This stress often coincides with larger desaturation levels or a longer recovery time after a Brady. The best place for him right now is to be in his isolette where it is quiet and less stressful. We hope that as the weeks go by he'll be able to handle longer sessions being held. Josh is also going to go off his IV soon as he is tolerating his feedings of milk really well. The nurses are increasing his feedings by 1cc every 9 hours and he is now getting 12 cc's every 3 hours. This is up dramatically from last week when he was getting just 3-4 cc's of milk every 4 hours. We hope this will help him gain some weight which in turn should help him grow stronger.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support, prayers, and kind thoughts. We have also received a number of nice gifts and will try to get some pictures up over the next week.
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