Sorry for the lack in update! Brant is doing fine. He was up to 5 pounds 5 ounces yesterday morning but lost a little weight. He's between 5lbs 4oz and 5lbs 5oz. He is needing about 30% oxygen on the 1 liter/minute regular nasal cannula. talked with the nurse practitioner today and once he is at 21% they will talk about weaning him down to maybe 1/2 a liter and go from there. She said they are in no hurry to do this yet because they aren't getting ready to send him home. When he gets closer to a discharge date they will push him a little but now they are letting him decide when to do the changes; his body let's them know when he's ready. The biggest hurdle he is going to have to overcome before coming home is eating. He has to take all of his feeds from a bottle and that just takes time for him to learn how to do it. He seems to have his days and nights mixed up... he takes full bottles, or close to full bottles every feed at night and then sleeps mostly through the day or he'll wake up for 1 or 2 feeds and takes just a little bit from the bottle before going back to sleep. And he loves to be held. He was held most of today by me, mom and dad. Darren, mom, and dad headed down this morning for the day. They made a pit stop at Cabela's and got Brant some cute little outfits, and Darren and dad got gun stuff... of course.
Nicki, Tanisha, and I drove down yesterday morning. We hung out at the hospital until about 3:30 and then went to Northgate to try to find Tanisha a JSB dress and a dress for Prom. Our original plan was for me to go with for about an hour or so and then Nicki would drop me back off at the hospital and they would continue the search. BUT Northgate had NOTHING. It wasn't that they didn't have any dresses we liked, it was that they didn't have any dresses period. The whole mall had maybe 10 long dresses, and of those they were either not cute at all or had nothing for sizes. So they dropped me off at the hospital and headed downtown. When they picked me up to go get dinner and head to the apartment for bed they still found nothing- and had the same problem we had at Northgate. At dinner we were searching the Internet on our phones for prom dress stores in the area. They ended up heading to Tacoma this morning after they dropped me off. Nicki was texting me pictures of the dresses the lady at the store had Tanisha try on, they had a lot of really cute dresses but man have styles changed since I was in school... and it hasn't been that long! Sorry but I don't consider a bikini top attached to a long skirt by a few pieces of string a dress! I don't know how girls feel comfortable in that stuff- I mean how do you dance in something like that without exposing yourself?? haha but she found 2 really pretty dresses! (and not bikini top dresses! hehe)
Anyway... we'll see how this week goes for Brant. I'm hoping and praying his feeds continue to go well and he builds up some stamina to take more during the day. And his need for oxygen goes down from 30% to more lower 20's. He isn't really having any more brady's. He did have 2 today but we had to put him in an awkward position and he spit up a little bit so that explained those. He has a bit of a diaper rash too. Desatin doesn't seem to be helping so they put in an order through the pharmacy for a stronger cream. But being Sunday it was going to be a few hours before we got it so the nurse had him on his stomach with his bum up in the air, exposed, under a light and I guess that helps it heal. I talked to the night nurse about an hour ago and she said it was already looking better just being open and exposed and he was comfortable so she was going to try to keep him in that position for as long as he could handle it tonight to try to get it to heal. He looked so funny.... I did take a picture- it's going to be one of those super embarrassing childhood pictures! He also had a hearing test the other day and passed! He won't need to have any further testing at this point. Love news like that!!
I will post some pictures in the morning!
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