Coming Home Soon!

By BK -

If you haven't checked the sidebar the picture page is up and running. Here's one of my favorite pictures of him under the Billirubin lights (for Jaundis). He totally looks like he's snorkeling!

Sorry for the lack of updates the last couple days. We thought we would be taking him home last night, but he didn't pass his car seat test (the last thing needed for him to be discharged). Basically he has to be able to sit in his car seat for a full hour without his SPO2 level dropping below a certain point (Saturation of Oxygen in his arterial blood flow) .

He's been laying down all of his time in the NICU so he's got to learn how to sit upright at the 45 degrees of the car seat and learn how to breathe properly.

We test again this morning, and if he fails again they try it with a car bed and he's still got to pass the test in the car bed (which shouldn't be much of a problem) So he should be coming home today.

I'm sure we'll get the updates going here more frequently because we'll have many more sleepless nights. We've actually been trying to bank up on our sleep the last couple nights (if that's at all possible)

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Lena said…
I love this picture! My favorite picture of Chloe in the NICU was also a billi light pic, but her's was a different kind, so she looked more like a movie star with big sunglasses and a light green aura surrounding her head. We're looking forward to welcoming Izzy home when the time is right!
July 27, 2008 at 2:27 PM
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