Jonathan was taken off the ventilator today, and he no longer needs any pain killers either! He was also moved from NICU (intensive care) to SCBU (special care) because the doctors thought he was stable enough to no longer require critical care - great news!
He got to spend most of the afternoon being hugged by Tracy which he seemed to enjoy, particularly the skin-to-skin time they had together. Tracy said he slept through most of it, and he managed to dribble all over her chest. I had a go at holding him against my chest too, but he wasn't too comfortable with it, and neither was I ... maybe we'll give it another go next week.
The nurses mentioned that his head circumference has grown 1cm in the last 2 days, which is a bit of a concern, but I guess we'll wait to see what the doctors say about it tomorrow. At the moment we're not sure whether it was just a wrong measurement, or something more serious. When we looked at the measurements they'd been taking every day since he was born, there has been a bit of variation in head size ... so we're really not sure. It still sounds like he's set to be transferred to King's on Sunday, so hopefully that still goes ahead and they're able to sort his brain out soon.
Anyway, at the moment, we're just happy that he's doing well after yesterday's operation. One day at a time!
He got to spend most of the afternoon being hugged by Tracy which he seemed to enjoy, particularly the skin-to-skin time they had together. Tracy said he slept through most of it, and he managed to dribble all over her chest. I had a go at holding him against my chest too, but he wasn't too comfortable with it, and neither was I ... maybe we'll give it another go next week.
The nurses mentioned that his head circumference has grown 1cm in the last 2 days, which is a bit of a concern, but I guess we'll wait to see what the doctors say about it tomorrow. At the moment we're not sure whether it was just a wrong measurement, or something more serious. When we looked at the measurements they'd been taking every day since he was born, there has been a bit of variation in head size ... so we're really not sure. It still sounds like he's set to be transferred to King's on Sunday, so hopefully that still goes ahead and they're able to sort his brain out soon.
Anyway, at the moment, we're just happy that he's doing well after yesterday's operation. One day at a time!
4 comments:
Good news!
Yay for SCBU and skin on skin time and no ventilator. What a sweetie! (I'm talking about Jonathan, not you Trace!)
so pleased he made it safely through the op
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