Today is a good day
Today is another good day for my son, he's off of all of his IV's and no longer on the vapo therm for those of you who don't know what that is it's basically 2 little prongs that are in this nose that continuously send oxygen through his nose so it reminds him that he has to breath, there's still something there by it's like a step down and after this there's nothing and he'll have to do things on his own and also means he's one step closer to coming hom,so that makes me happy. Let's see what else he now weight 2 lbs 14 oz and is currently eating 24 cc every 3 hours (there's 30 cc in an ounce!) and tomorrow will be his last day of antibiotics for his pneumonia and I'm happy to report that he hasn't had any spells yet today and when I say "spells" it meant that his heart rate drops and/ his O2 saturation drops also some times it's both other times its one or the other and I'm told this is normal due to the fact he's a preemie.
I got to hold him again tonight for about an hour and a half and that makes me feel so good to be able to do that because then it's more of a reality that he's actually mine, I mean I know he's mine but it's one thing to see him in his incubator and it's another thing to be able to hold him, I dunno I guess it's kinda hard to explain unless your a parent yourself, because most mothers get that instant connection with their child right after they're born because the child is placed on you but that wasn't the case for me, first I was pretty drugged up because I had a C-section and second I only got to see Hunter for a split second after he was born because they had to rush him off to the NICU and then I was brought back to Labor and delivery and stayed there for 2 hours while the numbness wore off so by the time I saw him for the first time I wasn't able to touch him and all I could do was look at him and he was all connected to tubes and everything from being on the ventilator and by then I was so exhausted that I ended up not staying long because all I really wanted to do was sleep. Although while at the hospital tonight there was a woman that came through and she was pregnant with TRIPLETS !! all i can say is better her than me and then in a different room twins were being discharged I give those women credit I can barely do it with one, so I dunno how they do it.
~Well that's all I got for tonight so Peace out People~
I got to hold him again tonight for about an hour and a half and that makes me feel so good to be able to do that because then it's more of a reality that he's actually mine, I mean I know he's mine but it's one thing to see him in his incubator and it's another thing to be able to hold him, I dunno I guess it's kinda hard to explain unless your a parent yourself, because most mothers get that instant connection with their child right after they're born because the child is placed on you but that wasn't the case for me, first I was pretty drugged up because I had a C-section and second I only got to see Hunter for a split second after he was born because they had to rush him off to the NICU and then I was brought back to Labor and delivery and stayed there for 2 hours while the numbness wore off so by the time I saw him for the first time I wasn't able to touch him and all I could do was look at him and he was all connected to tubes and everything from being on the ventilator and by then I was so exhausted that I ended up not staying long because all I really wanted to do was sleep. Although while at the hospital tonight there was a woman that came through and she was pregnant with TRIPLETS !! all i can say is better her than me and then in a different room twins were being discharged I give those women credit I can barely do it with one, so I dunno how they do it.
~Well that's all I got for tonight so Peace out People~