Day 11 - Saturday October 10th

Today was another frustrating day. Zander is back on the CPAP and is not liking it at all. The only good thing about today was that Mike was able to come with me to the hospital. Mike pulled the Dr aside and asked him to explain why Zanders progress is going so slow. The doctor said that Zander had an infection; the x-rays are showing a problem in the upper right lung; and due to gestational diabetes, his lungs are having a hard time producing their own surfactant.

One good thing that came from the conversation Mike had with the Dr was that Zander was put on a high flow cannula. This meant that Zander was already taken off of CPAP. The one thing that I hated was that Zander had to be started with 4 liters instead of 1.5 liters. The plan now is to changed Zander's flow Q12 (every twelve hours). Zander seems much happier with this decision (by not fighting to take the cannula off as much as the CPAP).

Zander is already feeling better with the high flow nasal cannula

Every diaper change we need to check Z's tempature

Mom's turn to change Z's diaper

Z is definitely a boy. He has sprayed Mommy

every time she changes his diaper.