Carter is doing well today. We are doing some more kangaroo care today and he is loving it. They have decreased his CPAP settings again to 10 breaths per minute and he is on 22% oxygen. They will continue to decrease these settings as long as he tolerates it. His feeds have also been increased to 21 mL every 3 hours and as long as he tolerates this today they will be stopping his TPN (total parenteral nutrition) and removing his PICC line. This is great news since it will be one more line out of him. They said that if for some reason they need to give him a medication they will place a peripheral IV in for a short period. Getting this line out helps to reduce his infection risk. We still have a lot of progress to make but Baby Carter continues to amaze us. Have to go for now, Katie's bladder is about to burst so Carter has to go back into his baby cave.
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