Look at the before and after pictures, what is missing?
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After
That's right he was extubated this afternoon!!!! Now that he no longer has the breathing tube they put him on an oxygen nasal cannula to give him extra oxygen. They also changed his feeding tube so that it goes into his stomach through his nose so that his mouth can be unobstructed to learn to feed orally and so he doesn't pull it out as easily. He did really well with the extubation after a few position changes and finally with me holding him so that his neck was exposed and head back further so open up his airway.
They put him on a morphine weaning taper schedule so we now know that he may be here for at least 10 more days if all goes well. On 9-11-10 they plan on starting him on oral morphine instead of it through the PICC line. They decreased the morphine by 1 today to 24mcg/kg.
He was spitting up his feedings a bit now so they decided not to push it and increase them more but keep them at an ounce every 3 hours. So, I got to pick him up and hold him briefly today so that they could change his sheets. And, fittingly enough they put Iowa Hawkeye sheets on his bed so he would be ready for the game tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be crazy here with the game. We have to be at the hospital around 7am so that we can get parking with all the tailgaters wanting parking as well. We do have a nice view of the stadium from the NICU and maybe can watch the game from the big screen on the scoreboard or at least we can see the score since we're so close.
They gave me a tour of the step down unit Bay 2-3 today since that is where he will go in the next few hours to days. It all depends on when they need his room he is in now. I guess they like to keep Bay 1 full so he is now 2nd on the list to leave because another baby was able to be extubated in the middle of the night so she will go first. Bay 2-3 seems just a little different and the main difference is that babies cry over there. Oliver hasn't cried yet since he was extubated but he was trying hard after they extubated him he was just so hoarse.
After
That's right he was extubated this afternoon!!!! Now that he no longer has the breathing tube they put him on an oxygen nasal cannula to give him extra oxygen. They also changed his feeding tube so that it goes into his stomach through his nose so that his mouth can be unobstructed to learn to feed orally and so he doesn't pull it out as easily. He did really well with the extubation after a few position changes and finally with me holding him so that his neck was exposed and head back further so open up his airway.
They put him on a morphine weaning taper schedule so we now know that he may be here for at least 10 more days if all goes well. On 9-11-10 they plan on starting him on oral morphine instead of it through the PICC line. They decreased the morphine by 1 today to 24mcg/kg.
He was spitting up his feedings a bit now so they decided not to push it and increase them more but keep them at an ounce every 3 hours. So, I got to pick him up and hold him briefly today so that they could change his sheets. And, fittingly enough they put Iowa Hawkeye sheets on his bed so he would be ready for the game tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be crazy here with the game. We have to be at the hospital around 7am so that we can get parking with all the tailgaters wanting parking as well. We do have a nice view of the stadium from the NICU and maybe can watch the game from the big screen on the scoreboard or at least we can see the score since we're so close.
They gave me a tour of the step down unit Bay 2-3 today since that is where he will go in the next few hours to days. It all depends on when they need his room he is in now. I guess they like to keep Bay 1 full so he is now 2nd on the list to leave because another baby was able to be extubated in the middle of the night so she will go first. Bay 2-3 seems just a little different and the main difference is that babies cry over there. Oliver hasn't cried yet since he was extubated but he was trying hard after they extubated him he was just so hoarse.
We are continually impressed with this little man of yours.
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