Still transitioning

Nicholas continues to adapt well to his new surroundings. We got moved from our private closet into a bigger room with a set of twins. Just when we started to get comfortable with our new digs, we're moved. The family seems nice enough but it's hard to share space and we fear Nicholas will pick up the bad habit of crying as the two girls in his room sure are criers. We both think they are slowly transitioning us to the larger open unit. For us, we are making sure everyone knows we are ready to go home when possible. We're perfectly fine to go home on oxygen, ng feeds, you name it, we're all for it to get out of here. Most of the staff has really tried going out of their way to help us adapt to the unit. The neonatologist told us to let them know if there is anything they don't have that we might need. So, they're trying and we are really trying to keep an open mind about things but it's harder today as we just moved into the new room, darn Rainbow for spoiling us early on! So, Ritz, Budget Motel to a youth hostel.

Nicholas continues to gain weight and is now up to 4lbs 9 ounces. He is eating 36cc every three hours and continues to bottle twice and breastfeed at least once. We're trying to read his ques a little better. If he's awake and alert we'll attempt to breast/bottle; if not, we give his feed through his feeding tube. Some of Denise R.'s family was in to visit this weekend and remarked on how small he is. It's weird to hear that as we can't believe how big he's gotten! The picture attached was Nicholas's thoughts when looking at Uncle Chad. He is now on 2 liters of oxygen at 32 percent FiO2. For those of you that are not medical, he's doing ok, his oxygen is less than at Rainbow but they increased the pressure a bit. He's still anemic (Hgt of 25, not sure what his Hgb is, Patty :)) and an ANC of 715, above 1500 is normal. With time, both should resolve. For those of you that are not medical, ignore the last two sentences.