Day 33: Resting

Henry is doing good today, he was still a little out of it. They gave him morphine this morning because he looked a little uncomfortable. When the Dr came for rounds she said no more morphine since it was making him sluggish with his breathing and they needed him to work harder, he would be given Tylenol if he needed anything. He was very agitated and did not like to be bothered. He would stop breathing on his own again and set off the alarms. So i pretty much left him alone. It was hysterical though every time the Dr walked by or said something or the nurse opened his incubator he would do the same thing!! It was amazing to see how observant the little guy is. The nurse said it happens a lot with babies, they get upset after a while because they associate those sounds with someone bothering them...needles, thermometers, suctions, diaper changes, xrays...the poor kid hasn't probably gotten a full hour sleep since he was born with all that has been done to him!! :(

They said they would leave him alone as much as possible today so he could rest because hopefully tomorrow is a big day. They are going to extubate him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Dr is hoping to take him off the ventilator and on to CPAP tomorrow, this is HUGE!! I'm nervous though because that means he needs to breath on his own, which he isn't a fan of but the nurse assured me it's fine. He will be watched closely and his settings tonight will be dropped very low to get him used to the idea of doing the work himself.

So excited!!!!!!