Landon seems to be controlling his brady's much better now than last week. Over the past 72 hours he has only been having about 3-4 brady's per day and for the most part he can recover from them on his own. His brady's seem to be occurring most either during or slightly after his feeds, which the nurses believe they are related mostly to reflux. Overtime this is something he should be able to outgrow as he continues to develop the coordination with breathing and eating at the same time.
With the patterns of his brady's at feeding times, the nurses seem to be less alarmed about the brady's being a result of his anemia. The doctors are still monitoring his anemia, but most likely the blood transfusion won't need to take place. If any brady's occur that aren't related to feeds and require strenuous stimulation then the possibility of needing it will come back onto the table. Although the blood transfusion sounds like such a negative procedure, there are a lot of benefits of it for preemies - I just wanted to mention this because I think it sounds a lot worse than what it actually is.
It also seems like Landon has officially graduated from the isolette as he has been able to maintain his own body temp on his own since Thursday night. He also has been slowly gaining more weight and he is now 4 pounds 2 ounces!
We also enjoyed some time with some visitors over the weekend. Different than last weekend, we spaced everyone out on different days as Landon seems to react to a lot of activity, so Popi and Mimi visited on Friday, Gigi and Dziadz on Saturday and Mom-mom and Aunt Heather on Sunday. It worked out really well and it was nice having some special one on one time with everyone.
Coming up this week is a big week for Landon as he is going to have a couple tests take place. He will be having an eye exam to check for his retinal development and overall vision. We are hopeful that the eye exam will go well as whenever his eyes are open he seems to do a good job at focusing and he also reacts to light as well. Landon will also be having another ultrasound of his brain to check for any continued brain bleeding and overall brain development. He scored really well on this the first two times so we are hopeful the results will come back positively again as well. Also a big week for us too as we have classes at the hospital for ourselves, including Infant CPR and Baby Care Basics. Although we are getting comfortable with diaper changes and the occasional bath, there is still so much more for us to learn and we will take all of the practice we can get before he is all ours at home for good!
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| Our wide-eyed little monkey! |
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| Looking good in daddy's arms! |
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| Still loving kangaroo time! |
SO glad you're having good days with Landon again! He's doing so well! It's great to be able to check up on you and Landon with this blog. Thinking of you all :)
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