Big Day!

We talked to Dr. Rouse last night, and Dr. Duffy this morning. The stitches are coming out today and at the same time, they are going to pull one chest tube from each side!! Dr. Rouse mentioned that if Gabriel continued to do well with his feeds and no more drainage started from the remaining chest tubes, they would be pulled in a day or so. Very exciting!!

The vent settings are very low now. Let's see if I can remember: Rate at 20 bpm, PIP at 17, PEEP at 6, breath support at 7. Surgery and Neonatology are supposed to be talking about extubation, but we haven't heard anything yet. I saw Dr. Denne heading back to the NICU, so Neo must be getting ready to round. Maybe we'll get news about that this morning? One can only hope! I may have mentioned this already, stop me if you've heard this ;), some DH babies get tired after a day or two of being extubated and have to be reintubated. Actually I did say that already - and I think I referred to the "auxiliary" muscles when I should have said ancillary. Oh well. That's it for now! Oh yeah, he's up to 45 ml of breast milk, actually it might be 50ml. He's moving so fast now I can hardly keep up!