The visit was somewhat stressful as Reid was sweaty and had a heart rate which was much higher than normal. The room was rather warm, so that may have had something to do with it and the nurse seemed somewhat concerned (his temperature was still just shy of the threshold where they start to get worried). The doctor wasn't overly concerned, but would keep an eye on how his day progressed. After an adjustment to the temperature in the room and a massive bowel movement, Reid's heart rate started to come down and he eventually fell asleep. Not sure if it was the temp in the room or the bowel movement, but one of them seemed to do the job. Before Kristen left for the evening (after being there for about 4 hours), he seemed to be back to normal. What concerns us the most is that if this was absolutely nothing, what is going to happen when he comes home and we have the same thing happen? How are we going to know if this is truly an issue... or something that babies normally do? As I have said in the past, we have a really hard time judging what is a premature/sick baby issue or a normal baby issue. Being that Reid is our first, we really have nothing to go off of.
Other news today, Reid's central line was finally removed. After the sutures were removed and a couple of small tugs, the line is out and he is bandaged up for the next 24 hours. One less thing to worry about...
Not much else to report tonight, so I will leave you with a couple of pictures that Kristen took today. In one of them, you will see that he is grasping onto two things - he is really starting to show signs of meeting milestones that are normal of a 3 month old (Reid is physically 6 months old, but adjusted due to his prematurity, he is 3 months old). Kristen said that he is even trying to lift his head up on his own.
11:15am: Not much is new with Reid today - which I guess is a good thing. He ended up sleeping the entire night in his bouncy chair and had a CO2 of 61. No pressure/flow change today... but when speaking to the doctor yesterday, he said that he wasn't going to wean until Thursday (at the earliest) anyway. He said with the really good CO2 gas yesterday, it was hard not to wean, but he wanted to give some time for Reid to stabilize as they have been actively weaning his prednisone. On Friday, he will be completely off the prednisone and solely on the hydrocortizone - which I imagine will start to gradually wean over time. In order for Reid to grow like he needs to, these steroids need to be out of his system. His central line was supposed to be removed yesterday but I think the surgeon ran out of time. Kristen just called the nurse and said that it was set to be removed within the hour.
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