10 Weeks, 5 Days (GA: 38 Weeks)

Zeke is doing well at home.  We figured out pretty quickly how to adjust the monitor settings since it was going off all the time.  Dr. Coulter today told me that he thinks it should be a criminal offense to send parents home with their baby on a Pulse-Ox monitor (because the saturation alert goes off way too much).  Dr. Chan told Nanette that he monitored a child for a year (with a respiratory/pulse monitor) after a previous 3 month old baby of his passed away from SIDS.  Our pediatrician told us today that he recommends putting Zeke on it for a couple hours each day to see how he is doing.  That is pretty much what we are doing.  We have not used any of the oxygen we have for him since he has been doing so well.

Gabe is now on caffeine to help him breath more regularly.  He is also on some reflux medication.  He has been doing much better today on his breathing.  He is on a low flow oxygen again at 25mL/minute.  He also had his nasal cannula completely off for a few hours this afternoon and was doing just fine.  Dr. Coulter said that he expects Gabe to go home early next week.

A funny thing happened today.  I was holding Gabe at crib side and at eye level on the counter was a bottle of breast milk.  There was a large sticker with large, capitalized text running from bottom of the bottle to the top: "HUMAN MILK".  However, from my vantage point, the first two letters were not visible due to the clip of a clipboard which was in front of the bottle.  I was amazed at what it appeared the nurse was warming up for Gabe.  :)