September 18, 2006

It's been a busy weekend so I haven't been able to update until now. As of Sunday Happy 14 Weeks Aiden!!!!!!!!!

Aiden is doing well for the most part. He's had a few minor issues that they are checking out the best they can. One of them, "better safe then sorry" type things. Saturday he seemed very sleepy through the day and not himself, so they did a CBC and sent blood cultures to the lab just to make sure he didn't have an infection. The CBC came back fine, and so far nothing from the cultures, which is great. Saturday night he seemed back to himself, loved being held but had a bit of an attitude when you put him down. Yup that's my peanut. Spoiled!!! But he settled in and was fine the rest of the night. Sunday came and then about 7AM he has a spell which is not like him to do. He has never been a baby to spell much. Once here and there for 2 to 3 seconds, so this one was unusual and lasted 30 seconds. A spell is when your heart rate drops, and they sometimes stop breathing. They sometimes even need to be stimulated by patting there backs to get them going again, and breathing normal. That is what happend to Aiden. They then chose to send off cultures for the flu, RSV and another virus to rule out anything they can and like I said, to be safe rather then sorry. So far nothing has come back and Aiden is being Aiden. All good to hear.
Other good news today is he had an eye exam and the doctor said she is VERY pleased. That they look excellent and are getting better. That he may need glasses but she is very very happy with them. That the doctor who did the laser surgery did a wonderful job. I was so happy to hear that, and as for glasses well I wear them and can't see two feet with out them, so I kinda figured Aiden would need them too. Not such a big deal. He can always get contacts when he becomes a teen. Some more good news is Aiden drank from a bottle today at 8AM. He drank 20 ml's which is 20 cc's.. At noon he was too sleepy to try so out goal is to try again at 4PM if he is wide awake.
We are going inthe right direction finally. I was so excited that I called home to tell chuck and scared the crap out of him cause he didn't know what I was talking about.. Until I started talking a bit slower. He drank from a Buh-Ba is what I was yelling.. So i needed to slow it down and say he drank from a bottle, then he was as excited as I was.. YAY for today. It's about time we had a really good day. He's also at 110 ml per kg (140 is a full feed) which he will be at by midnight on tuesday night / wednesday morning. After that they will then increase his calories. This will be the next bump in the road. Hopefully it will be just a speed bump we can cruise over and not a pot hole we get stuck in.
YAY for Aiden!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!