SO....
Little Jackson's been doing really well!
The doctor has him trying to take a bottle 3 times a day..and he's done fairly well. Sometimes he finishes the whole thing (remember, they have 30 minutes, then the remaining is put into the tube), but more often than not, he doesnt quite make it...but Im okay with that. THAT can get better. He's still not even really suppose to be able to "suck" at the gestation age he is. I remember one day I was really upset because when I came to see him, they had raised the rate on his ventilator quite a bit. The respitory therapist was sooo reassuring and I keep telling myself what she said to me that day, "They are so young yet, and not even suppose to be here, and we ask so much from them...it takes time."
They have also been slowly lowering the heat in his isolate since he has been gaining weight, which is one of the factors they look at before allowing him to come home; can he hold his body temperature. It's all just such a weaning game...their temp, the oxygen, the ventilators, the sedation medication and billie lights...everything without causing too much stress on their bodies...and that's just without complications from infections, broken blood vessels, undigested feedings, rashes, skin break downs, blood transfusions...so so many other factors. A couple of the nurses have said that in a lot of babies, one day everything just seems to click...and things really pick up from there. Im hoping we've clicked.
Jackson's weighing in at a whopping 3lbs, 12oz. and looking really different, really healthy. It's amazing the difference in the skin once it matures. Ive been told that babies skin matures 21 days after birth, no matter the gestation. I was told this after I made a comment about how great his skin had been looking that day...and then I asked after she told me this little random fact what day it was. It was 21. Such a little silly story, but it just so fits with his story.
I'll update this more often over the next week. It took me awhile to leave a post after the last one I wrote. I dont know why really, but I was having such a hard time thinking about the little baby who touched me so much, even though I never even saw her sweet little face, except through the eyes of her brother...thank you for those of you who said you had said a prayer for her and her family.
"And there's one poor child who saved this world,
And ten million more that probably would,
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them..."
"Better Days" --Goo Goo Dolls
Crystal
