Sunday, March 8, 2009

It's getting closer to springtime.....

Hello everyone, the weather has been so nice the last couple of days, it's been really hard not to just start taking Logan out everywhere! I really wanted to take him to church this morning, but I took pictures of him instead! There is still quite a bit of sickness going around, so we will stay in for the month of March. I am hoping come April, we will be able to get out and at least go to church.

Logan gets him final RSV shot of the season (at least I hope!) Tuesday. He is big enough now that he will have to get the shot in both legs. He is definitely not going to like that! We weighed him at Grandma Betty's house today and he was 16.5 pounds! He's quite the little chunk! He takes between 7-8 ounces of milk every four hours and 1 jar of baby food a day (1/2 jar of fruit and 1/2 jar of vegetables). He also takes a little apple/prune juice to help with his bowel movements. So it seems like he is constantly eating/drinking something throughout the day.

We also got him laughing the other day. He's so funny, he is always smiling really big, but his laughs are not given out so generously! He is still sleeping well through the night, but we have a pretty tough time just getting him to fall asleep.

We also did another sleep study recently to see if we could get rid of his oxygen. He did do much better this time than last, but Dr. Einhorn is not totally ready to give it up yet. On his last study, he spent 11% of the night below 88% oxygen saturation. This time, he only spent 3% of the night below 88%, so he did much better! Dr. Einhorn also spoke with the NICU doctors and they said not to give up the oxygen during the cold/flu season. So here's the plan......we are stopping one of the diuretics now, and then 2 weeks from now, we will stop the other one, and then 2 weeks after that, we will stop the oxygen completely and do another sleep study, just to make sure everything is going ok.

Ok, now I will post some new pics!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jill, I am glad to see some pictures of the little cutie!! I hope the plan to get rid of the oxygen goes well. He is getting so big...before you know it you will be planning his 1st Birthday party!!! Talk to ya soon.

Amanda said...

HOLY CUTIE-PATOOTIE! I could just eat those cheeks right up! How do you keep your hands off of him? He is looking like a VanBlaricum Big Time!

You are so close to getting to share that little monkey. Hang in there. Still praying to keep him well this WHOLE first year.

Love you,
Amanda, Ed and Gabi