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Stacy and James

NICU Day 19

An infectious disease doctor stopped by to look over James and said that everything looks good. He seemed to handle the 10 ml of breastmilk yesterday without any issues so they bumped him up to 15 ml over three hours.    

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NICU Day 18

  The blood test James had a couple of days ago did not show any infection so they took him off the antibiotics. They took him off oxygen at 8:00 am this morning, but decided to put him back on a minimal amount of oxygen at around 8:00 pm to…

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Hanging out with the little man

NICU Day 17

They put James on two antibiotics: piperacillin for the possible pneumonia that they saw on his x-ray yesterday, and vancomycin in case there is a bacterial infection in his intestines that may be causing his feeding issues. He is on oxygen, but a very low amount. He has been having…

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Sleepy James

NICU Day 16

James is still on the IV for his feedings. They are going to try breastmilk again tomorrow, but Stacy doesn’t think that he will keep it down. He is just making so many secretions and is getting suctioned every hour, sometimes multiple times an hour. They did a chest x-ray…

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James and Daddy

NICU Day 15

The nurses said that James had a good night’s sleep and didn’t have too many issues. He was having some difficulty keeping his sats up and his food down, so they decided to stop feeding him Stacy’s breastmilk and switched over to IV fluids. The geneticist took some more blood…

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Stacy reading james a story

NICU Day 14

Family Meeting We had our family meeting this morning in a conference room close to the NICU. My parents, Stacy’s parents, doctors of various specialties, a NICU nurse and a social worker were there to discuss James, what they know so far, and what they think the plan should be…

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Daddy Can Change a Diaper

NICU Day 13

After two weeks off from work, I went back to work full time. It’s going to be rough to work all day and then go visit James and Stacy at the hospital, but I gotta do what I gotta do, right? Since I won’t be there every day, I will…

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