I was hesitant to post anything yesterday because they made some MAJOR changes with Michael. First on friday evening they changed his vent settings so that he was initiating ALL breaths on his own. The ventilator was not set to provide any breaths at all. On Satuday, the Neonatologist came in and said we are going to extubate him today and see how he does. I am sure my jaw dropped to the floor. I was thinking, he is one week old...if he was still in my belly his gestational age would be 25 weeks and 6 days...he is not even due to be born for another 14 weeks and you want to take his breathing tube out? They said they would initially try a nasal cannula and if that was not enough move up to CPAP. If was unable to sustain himself on either of these then they would reintubate. They already have him on caffeine to help stimulate him to breathe. Mike and I were there when they extubated him and I could barely watch. All of his monitors are going off, his heart rate dropped and his oxygen sats dropped...........but he recovered and held his own......on just the nasal cannula. Mike and I were at the hospital today over 24 hours later and he is still JUST on the nasal cannula. I don't have any words to describe this. We know we have an amazing God, but this leaves me speechless. We know he might not be able to maintain just the nasal cannula, but the fact he has been able to do it for over 1 day at just 1 week old is a small miracle.
We also got the reports back from his head ultrasound and right now everything looks good. They scan premature babies heads to see if there is any bleeding in the brain. Right now his was good and they will rescan him in another week.
Also today Mike got to hold him for the first time (I will post pictures later). Michael did very well and Mike got to hold him for almost 2 hours.
We continue to thank every for their prayers. This definitely means a lot to all of us and this is truly what Michael needs. We are so grateful for his progress so far.
Mike and Jen
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