Let's play the game what's missing with the picture below. The answer will be at the end of the post. They continue to wean his oxygen flow and he is now down to 2.5 L on about 28% oxygen. He has been breathing a little fast but seems to be tolerating it well. He seems to be a little gaseous today and grunting a lot which doesn't help his breathing since he tends to stop breathing to grunt. And don't worry he is not constipated, we can attest to that. He is up to 33 mL every 3 hours on his feeds. His weight last night was 4 pounds 5 ounces. The goal at the end of the week is to start to begin to teach him to suck better so that transitioning from a tube feed to a bottle will be easier. So back to the picture below. If you guessed the top to his isolette you were correct. Little Carter started to get too warm so they popped the top off of his convertible. After having him out for a little while his temperature was 97.1 which is lower than the 97.3 that they would like it to be so we will see how long his top gets to stay off.
Wow, you are doing so well, Carter. You are overcoming the challenges you face little by little every step of the way. Keep it up and you will be home with Mommy and Daddy before you know it!
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