September 15th is NICU appreciation day and we wanted to send a special shoutout to the NICU nurses that took care of James for the first two months of his life. We can’t possibly thank you enough for all that you did for him, and for us. You didn’t just…
Stacy found the below video on YouTube and we wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of the NICU nurses out there. The nurses that James had in the NICU were awesome. We can’t even begin to explain how thankful we are to them for the…
WARNING: Very Long Post! After spending two months going back and forth to the hospital to see James in the NICU, I thought I would take some time to write about our experience to give others an idea of what it was like. If you have been following James’…
I wasn't sure if the title of this post should be NICU Day 62, or if it was an addition to Day 61. I mean technically, I guess this would be Day 62, but since it's a continuation of the Day 61 post, I decided to call it NICU Day…
Sorry that it’s been a few days since I’ve posted an update. Not much has happened the past few days, which is a good thing. We think we’ve got James under control to the point that we think he’s ready to go home. I think we’re ALL ready to go…
NICU Day 54 They bumped his feeds from 90 ml to 100 ml over 2 hours. Based on his weight, he should be at 110 ml, but they decided to go with a 10 ml increase instead of 20 ml. A woman from home health stopped by the…
Yesterday was a rather uneventful day which is why I didn’t post any updates. The only thing that happened yesterday was that he is up to his maintenance dose of Phenobarbital and will be taking it at 9 am and 9 pm via G-tube. Today he started a smaller dose…