September 13, 2008: Day 13

This morning, we arrived to see Aidan doing really well, back on room air. The nurse said he had a really good night.

She also dressed Aidan for the very first time.




NOTE: The mouse is not huge, it's only 6 inches tall!

All of Aidan's IV feeding lines were removed, so he is getting all of his nutrition from milk now, and they have increased him to 10cc every 2 hours, and increased the fortifier to 24 calorie fortifier.

Denyse held Aidan for an hour and a half and he did pretty well. It was a good day visit with Aidan.

We returned to visit Aidan after dinner. They weighed him before we got there. He gained 40 more grams and is now 2 lbs 2.8 oz, up 1.2 ounces from yesterday. Right after we arrived, he made a *huge* mess in his diaper, so he probably lost a half an ounce :)

In recent days, we have been concerned that Aidan does not seem to be as stable with his oxygen saturation levels, and they tend to drop whenever he gets excited, or has problems with the CPAP. Tonight nurse Gwen made us realize that Aidan is now working *much* harder to digest food. He is now digesting way more food than just a couple days ago, and this takes a lot of energy, so I think it is expected that he should be more tired, and be a little more susceptible to minor oxygen spells. This evening, his oxygen saturation did dip into the 70s a couple times, and set off the alarm, once during a diaper change, and once when he was startled by a loud noise. But we're trying to not worry about this as much.

In total, day 13 for Aidan ws a very good day.