Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Day Three
Well, we are on day three and so far so good. He has gone up and down as far as the percentage of oxygen is concerned that he is receiving from the tube. He is close to breathing room air, but not there yet. Alaina got to change his diaper last night through the hand holes, and she was REALLY excited about that. One downfall he had was acidosis which means he wasn't exhaling as much CO2 as he was supposed to, but they have made adjustments for this. Tomorrow is a big day test wise. They will know if he has patent ductus arteriosis, which means a little flap in the heart may not have closed yet. They have been giving him medicine to try to close it and they will check it tomorrow. If it isn't closed (they can hear a murmur), then they will do an echocardiogram and then if needed surgery to fix it. I will 100% keep you posted on this.
Peyton is still in our Good Lord's hands and I know neither he or Alaina would be alive if that were not the case.
Peyton is still in our Good Lord's hands and I know neither he or Alaina would be alive if that were not the case.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Baby Peyton's Arrival
Peyton Shawn Davis was born June 26, 2009. Alaina was only 27 wks pregnant. Peyton was born at 2:07pm at Women's Hospital of Texas. He weighed 1 lb, 13 oz and measured 14.75 inches. Peyton opened his eyes in the delivery room, so that is exciting. Right now they have his eyes taped closed with cotton balls and he is on all kinds of monitors. He has a feeding tube through his belly button. These first three days are life-threatening. No one can touch him, but they can see him. After that the next benchmark is 10-12 days of life--that is when they will know that the brain is ok. If he makes it through that then I think it means he will be fairly normal. He cannot come home until he would have been 37 gestational wks, so about 10 wks. Mommy is doing good physically! Mommy and Daddy are struggling emotionally.
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