Day 103- December 22, 2013

A lot has happened since Tuesday. Owen was slowly weened down on his oxygen and got to .1 liters at 100% Friday morning. This is the level of oxygen that he will go home on. His feedings have picked up where they left off at and is nippling every feed! 

Friday morning the Doctor surprised us and asked if we were ready to room in for the next 2 nights! Of course we were ready! We ran home to get everything together, get some groceries, pack our bags and get back up to the hospital. 

Owen had to pass a car seat  challenge, where he had to sit in his car seat for 2 hours with out his heart rate and oxygen levels going down. He passed!!

Owen had another hearing test and failed, he will have to see and audiologist in the next few weeks.

He had an echo on Friday as well, but we have not heard the results yet.

On Friday all of Owen's equipment arrived and we were taught how to use it. He will have an oxygen machine, pulse-on monitor, apnea monitor and a nebulizor for breathing treatments. This will be tough having him connected to 3 machine constantly and keeping up with Ll of his meds and treatments, but it will be worth it!! 

We stayed with Owen in a room Friday and Saturday night to make sure that we were comfortable with all the equipment and learned how to give him all his meds. It went pretty good! We didn't get much sleep but that's expected.

He got weighed during the first night and was down another 60grams and that was the 4th day in a row that he had lost weight. This is a little concerning so they said that he has to gain good weight for two days in a row to be ready to go home. Last night he gained 100grams so we are making sure we are feeding him good today and hopefully will be able to go home tomorrow afternoon!!!!!

Just chilling in my car seat!

Trying to get that burp out