{"id":323,"date":"2008-02-01T23:43:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-02-01T23:43:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T07:43:10","slug":"im-crawling-outta-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m crawling outta here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well actually Stacy made some arrangements to take some baby pictures of Greyson.\u00a0 We decided we wanted to try to get some without all the cords and tubes before he was no longer a little baby.\u00a0 After all, he is over 9 pounds now!\u00a0 Hard to believe he was a 24 (well 23 weeks and 6 days) micro preemie who was 1 pound 9 ounces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well the recap is pretty much the same.\u00a0 c02 was 72.\u00a0 Still about the same on his oxygen needs.\u00a0 His ph was down as well as his bicarb (don’t worry I’m not going to drag you through all those numbers, but they are a part of his gas that I am learning about) so I think that is somewhat positive.\u00a0 He saw the speech pathologist today, so before we left he was able to say simple things like “mom” and “dad”.\u00a0 Next week they will check in on him again and work on harder words like “Mississippi” and phrases like “I was really hoping someone would buy me a wii”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OK just kidding.\u00a0 Actually the speech pathologist evaluated how he was doing and worked with us to give us some tips to help prepare him to eat.\u00a0 This is important because Greyson is over 4 months old and has had a lot of bad things to associate with his mouth.\u00a0 None of them were related to getting food.\u00a0 So we will be working with him to ensure he is having associating postive touch when it comes to his mouth and hopefully that will prepare him for when he has to use his mouth to feed himself.<\/p>\n

He was quite a bit puffy today, so the edema problem is back.\u00a0 The Dr. put him on a very strong diruetic for 4 doses and it seemed to be helping him pee off the excess fluid.\u00a0 Hopefully this will help his numbers tonight.<\/p>\n

**Warning–graphic story to follow**<\/p>\n

OK so aside from getting a bath and the photo shoot (both of which I was gone for), Greyson slept most of the day today.\u00a0 Well at his final care time we had changed his diaper and taken his temperature and were getting him put back in his sling (thing that holds him up on the wedge that he has to be on for his reflux).\u00a0 His diaper was wet and he had a streak of poop on it.\u00a0 Anyway he started getting really agitated and then Stacy and I (mainly Stacy) noticed he had pulled his feeding tube out a little bit.\u00a0 So his nurse Ashlie (she’s commented on here before and said I could use her name!) came over to put it back.\u00a0 She had it almost in when he pulled the whole thing out.\u00a0 Then he was throwing a major fit.\u00a0 Screaming and thrashing around.\u00a0 I tried my best to get him to calm down but after several minutes nothing was working.\u00a0 Finally we put him down and checked his diaper.\u00a0 It was a major blow out!\u00a0 So Ashlie got the tube back in and we started in on the diaper change.\u00a0 As I’ve mentioned before Greyson is pretty stinky due to all the additives they put in his milk.\u00a0 Well while I was getting the wipe wet, Stacy opened up the diaper.\u00a0 The smell was so bad that Ashlie actually started to gag.\u00a0 After arching like she was going to spew a couple times she hurried over to the trash can where she continued to arch back.\u00a0 Her face was SO funny as it was obvious the smell was just way more than she was going to be able to handle.\u00a0 She never did vomit but it wasn’t long before she told went to help another baby and told us she’d be back later to check on us.\u00a0 It was bad so I don’t blame her!\u00a0 After we got him all cleaned up he was very calm until we put him back in his sling.\u00a0 Then the whole things started over again (without the pulling of the feeding tube).\u00a0 Yep, he’d gone again.\u00a0 Ashlie missed out on that one as she was still “helping” the other baby.\u00a0 I think she was just standing closer to an open door where she could get some oxygen!\u00a0 She’s a great sport and we were laughing about the whole thing before we left.\u00a0 Largely because Stacy and I were getting out of there and she had to stay and deal with anything that happened for two more hours.\u00a0 Come to think of it we were talking earlier in the night about doing something significant to “impress” Ashlie, wonder if making her sick qualifies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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