How's the Boy?

It seems that they are trying to move Our Little Man right along. They switched him to a "lo-flo" canula on Saturday. I was there when they did it, but they just said "we're switching out his canula." I thought they were putting in a new one because the old one was gunked up. They had also changed to "bolus feedings," the all-at-one-time kind. The result of this was that he was spelling a little more and his belly was distended again. They switched him back to continuous feeds, and his belly has gone down a bit, but they are keeping him on the lo-flo for now because the hi-flo will fill him up with more air. This might be why he is desatt-ing more often, meaning the oxygen saturation in his blood is dropping below their limit more often. His levels on the monitor are set between 85% and 94%, and alarms go off whenever he is too high or too low. They go off a lot.

The whole place is alight and abuzz with alarms. Finn is one of six babies in his room, and there are rooms on either side of him with as many babies in each. You can tune out a lot of it, but it's still there.

The doctors are still pleased with him and his progress, though. He's up to 1225 grams, or 2.7 pounds, and he looks good to us. Last night, when we came in for our evening visit/cuddle, he was wide awake and squirming. We got him out for some daddy time, but he would not stop fussing. He wanted to move his head from one side to the other, and only really settled for a few minutes at a time. His heartrate was going up to 201 (his monitor levels are between 90 and 210 bpm), and he just seemed uncomfortable, which was making me worry, which was, in turn, making Pete nervous. We decided to put him back into his third womb and check his diaper.

Sure enough, it was wet. He really hates having a wet diaper, something which I think is just fine. Once we changed it, he settled down. Then the nurse moved him onto his belly, which he normally likes, and he eventually got fussy again. We asked the nurse to check his diaper again as we left at 10. It was not a very satisfying cuddle for either Pete or Finn, so we'll try again tonight.

On the bright side, Papa got to come and visit after his work at the LPGA tournament, and he saw first hand how much his grandson has changed in the last few weeks. (I'll have to ask Dad if that is how he spells it. That's how I see it in my head, but it might be "Poppa.") Grandma is coming this afternoon or evening. She's working the tournament, too, but she likes to point out that Dad is working more in one day than she works the entire time.