Back in Springfield

Well Danny and I made it back to Springfield around 6:00 p.m. We went straight to the hospital and Logan is in his new bed and seems to be enjoying it. The doctors thought they might wean him off of the ventilator totally today, but when he got down to the machine breathing 10 breaths a minute for him, his oxygen sats went a little haywire, so they decided to keep him on the ventilator overnight and let Dr. Nimavat decide the course of action in the morning. So right now he is on 15 breaths per minute from the machine and he is breathing on his own about 35 or more breaths per minute. Hopefully sometime tomorrow they will be able to take him off the ventilator. He will then move to a C-PAP machine, which is a mask that goes over his nose and mouth. It provides extra pressure when he breathes, but he does all of the actual breathing himself. They are giving him medicinal caffeine daily to stimulate his respiratory drive. They inserted a pic line in his foot and took the lines out of his umbilical cord. The nurse said that the doctors like to wait at least 24 hours after the umbilical cord lines are out, and then they may start trying some breast milk through a feeding tube, but just a very small amount at a time (1-2 ccs). He is also off of his sedation medications and is able to move around a bit. Hopefully this will help his swelling go down.

Please pray that he will be able to wean off of the ventilator sometime soon and be able to tolerate breathing on his own. The nurse did tell us though that these preemies often have to go back on the ventilator at some point because they will likely have a setback or two that will require extra help breathing. Let's hope that Logan will skip this. His daddy wanted me to say how incredibly proud of our little boy we are for being so strong and tolerating all of this new equipment.