Day 81 - 2nd Vaccine & New Neobar

Sunday, March 21, 2021

We gave James a bath at 2am this morning. We didn't want to wake him at 8pm for it, so instead we waited till 2am, lol. The night nurse had never given a tub bath to an intubated baby, so Mom ran the show. She got to sleep around 4:30am. 😩

James had his 2nd vaccine today which was actually a 5 in 1 shot; diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP), hepatitis B, and inactivated polio (IPV). No reactions so far! He actually got the shot when he was doing skin to skin with Mom. We had the whole thing planned, lol. Short cry but he was fine. 

Last night James weighed in at 2805 grams (6lb 3oz)!!!

The only other update for today is that he received a new neobar, which is the ET tube guard. Same size as the old one since it's the rose color one but it was falling off his face. So we decided to go ahead and remove everything from his face to clean him up. This means we also changed out his NG tube.




Getting prepped for his new neobar.

Sleeping in a new position propped up on a pillow.














P.S. You can email James your love and support as often as you’d like. Mom and Dad read these email to James as they come in. We all love them! JamesWestonAbramowitz@gmail.com

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