Happy Birthday Shawn

Today is Shawn's birthday and Oliver turns 6 days old. It's hard to believe that my little boy will be a week old tomorrow. My biggest wish is to hold him. Everytime we go in his room and I see his cute little face (well with eye shields and ear muffs on) my heart melts and I just want to lean in and kiss him. We have to wear gloves when touching him again and he had a rough morning. He had a great day yesterday he tolerated the lower dose of his morphine drip well and his oxygen level stayed good. Today he still has that upper right lobe of his lung that is collapsed and they are still hoping that with the position changes that it will just "fluff" up on its own.

Today when we arrived at the hospital he was moving around but he was maintaining his oxygen level well. Then he developed the hiccups which was cute but he was not happy with them. He's going to be like his mamma and have hiccups that last for more than 20 mintues that is for sure. It was taking too much oxygen/energy for him to breathe and to hiccup that they had to sedate him with ativan and morphine and we had to hold his arms and legs close to his body to help calm him. They had to turn his ventilator oxygen concentration up so he would get more oxygen because his oxygen saturation level was not where it had been. When they suctioned him today they got back just some thick fluid not pink-tinged as yesterday so that is good. I guess that this is what they call the NICU rollercoaster as other parents we've met say happens. This is what it means to take it hour by hour and not day by day because things can change so fast. He is comfortable now and his oxygen need has decreased some from before when he had the hiccups. Click on the next blog to view the video of him hiccuping while he was still tolerating the workload of doing both (I can't figure out how to incorporate them together.)

Oliver's Grandma Shirley is coming back today to bring us more items from our house and stay with me until Shawn returns again on Friday night. Shawn and I are going out for supper tonight for his birthday while Oliver spends some time with Grandma Shirley and then Shawn will go home tomorrow and back to work on Friday. Here's also another picture of me with Oliver.