Xavi has been making great progress. He's up to 5 1/2 pounds, so he's gaining weight well, and he's been keeping his body temperature stable for some time now. Those are two of the major requirements for being able to come home.
The other challenges--taking all of his feedings by mouth and oxygen level--we'll be seeing about in the next couple of weeks. He's doing great both bottle feeding and breast feeding, but he's not yet able to take a feeding by mouth at every feeding (which come every 3 hours). He's steadily building up his endurance to do that, though, so I'm sure we'll see good progress on that front this week.
The other main question is what his oxygen requirements will be. It looks very likely that he'll still require oxygen support when he comes home. They will be trying out some new things this week to see how he will do on a low-flow cannula with 100% oxygen (currently he's on a high-flow cannula with a much lower concentration of oxygen).
We're just about 3 weeks from his due date, and it looks like he'll be home by April 9 if not before.The end is in sight!
Monday, March 18, 2013
Eva and Xavi
Each Wednesday one of the girls comes to the hospital by herself to have special time with Xavi and me. We have lunch together (they love the "hospital restaurant," where lunch usually consists of a mini-box of Fruit Loops or Apple Jacks and Sun Chips), and then we go up to spend some time together with Xavi. Last week, Eva got to help Amy to take Xavi's temperature, change his diaper, and then got to hold him for the first time. They both loved it! Xavi kept opening his eyes to look at her and gave her a little smile, and then conked out and slept peacefully while she held him.
Monday, March 4, 2013
First family photos
The girls love having Xavi out in an open crib. They can see him and reach him and relate to him much more easily. These are the first photos of our whole family together!
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