August 4, 2008 - Day 55

Well today we got some good and some ok news. The good news is the nurse said Brendan will be coming home soon. The ok news is that he will be coming home on oxygen. They offered to transfer him to another children's hospital for a couple of weeks or said we could bring him home on oxygen for a couple weeks and wean him off of it on our own at home. So that is the option we are going to take. Right now he is at 1/2 liter flow and 21% which is room air, basically breathing on his own. He just has a couple episdoes where he cannot tolerate breathing on his own. He did have 2 bradys with desats and a couple desats on their own today. The nurse today also said that they are now going to weigh Brendan everyday because he is not gaining as much weight between weigh-ins as they would like him to. But at his weigh-in last night he weighed 1.82 grams or 4 pounds. Since he will be coming home on oxygen and a monitor we have to take the hospitals infant cpr class. In addition to infant cpr training they will be training us on how to use the oxygen, how to use the monitors, what the beeps mean and when it's time to go to the hospital. We will be taking it this week because they said Brendan could come home as early as this weekend. Tonight again I was on diaper and temperature duty and Devin fed Brendan. He does not like getting his temperature taken. Yes for the first time I heard a good strong cry from our baby. Most parents cringe when their baby cries but for me it was a bittersweet moment. Happy 8 week birthday Brendan!