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…
James had another one of his “spells” during the night where his oxygen saturations (sats) dropped down into the 60s. The nurse tried to get his sats back up by doing some repositioning, and suctioning, but neither of those seemed to work. She thought maybe he was having a seizure…
Stacy spoke with the neurologist about James’ seizure early yesterday morning and what she saw on the EEG. The neurologist was 95% sure it was a seizure because of his movements and how the Ativan helped instantly. Stacy asked how long he would need to be on the Phenobarbital (antiseizure…
We were woken up at around 2:30 am by a phone call from one of the NICU doctors saying that they think James had a seizure! They did an EEG (electroencephalogram), which uses a bunch of electrodes attached to the scalp that monitors the electrical impulses of the brain. They…
When Stacy got to the NICU this morning, one of the nurses said that she gave James a half dose of morphine because he was very tense. After she gave him the morphine he loosened up. We don’t know what caused him to become so tense. Was he in pain?…
If you’ve read yesterday’s post, you know that they started using his new G-tube and were slowing increasing his feeds (first with Pedialyte and then with breastmilk) until they get him up to full feeds. So far everything is going smoothly with the G-tube and it looks like he will…