Baby GL is adjusting to having surgery. He is still intubated with the hopes of moving to high flow of 4 liters of pressure. The tube really bothered him through the night and was needed morphine to call himself. I was told that by 6am he finally settled. He got so upset he clamped down and needed assisted breaths with an oxygen bag. Hopefully extubating will relieve the stress on him and allow him to relax and heal. The problem occurs that with some of the meds and if Baby GL is too out of it he will let the machine do his breathing for him. Today he's been taking more of his own breaths which we hope will be enough to extubate.
He still hasn't been given milk. We are waiting on his bowel to start moving and the nurses say it sounded much livelier than yesterday so that's good news. A diuretic was started yesterday to relieve some fluid retention. It's typical after having gotten a blood transfusion.
Aside from that he's doing everything that is typical of a baby after surgery, I guess. I got a look at part of his stitches yesterday and thing seem to look good. Once again we just wait. We've had a little set back with the breathing tube but I feel confident he'll catch up.
He still hasn't been given milk. We are waiting on his bowel to start moving and the nurses say it sounded much livelier than yesterday so that's good news. A diuretic was started yesterday to relieve some fluid retention. It's typical after having gotten a blood transfusion.
Aside from that he's doing everything that is typical of a baby after surgery, I guess. I got a look at part of his stitches yesterday and thing seem to look good. Once again we just wait. We've had a little set back with the breathing tube but I feel confident he'll catch up.
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