Day 162 - Auto Mode Success!

Thursday, June 10th, 2021

James had kind of a rough night. Could not be consoled for a while and then a massive diaper at 8:30pm, followed by a 2:00am, 5:30am, and 7:30am events. He just seemed really irritated with his hernia for most of the night. Today around 11:30am he had a huge burp, so Mom is now charting these to see if there is a correlation with the formula versus breastmilk.

James is having a 6 month birthday party 🥳🎈 at the end of the month in RM 2120. Hopefully we are still in the NICU so he can celebrate with all of his favorite RNs & RTs. We will be serving prune juice! Make sure you're on the schedule for Thursday, July 1st so you can stop by! 🎉🧁

Changes/Updates:

• Weigh-in: 5685 grams (12lb 8oz) - gaining 71 grams a day over the past 3 days. Maybe that's too much too fast!?
• New nurse today that has never had James before, but she seemed very knowledgeable and we would be happy to have her in the neighborhood!
• Doctor change again. 
• Mom mentioned to the Doctor about seeing if we could move up the hernia surgery instead of waiting until discharge (since we have no idea when that will be). He is going to talk to the surgery team.
• James tolerated another hour round of Auto Mode on the vent with no assists!

ENT came by to look at the stoma. Physical Therapy stopped by to work with James on stretching his arms and legs.

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