Day 179 - Sleepy Baby

Sunday, June 27th, 2021

Updates/Changes:

  • We have weaned his methadone from .2 to .15 . To offset this we have increased his clonidine. Clonidine is not an opioid and is much easier to wean so when the time comes it will be a faster process.
Our doctor had the GI surgeon to stop by to take a look at the bruising on his scrotum (where he had the hernia and hydrocele surgery). He said that everything looked fine at this point. Currently there is bruising and a noticeable size difference.

James has been very sleepy, but not lethargic. He would just rather sleep. Even if he sleeps for the majority of the day now, he still has a good night. This could just be due to recovering from his surgery and fractures, being more comfortable overall, or growing. After all babies do sleep a lot!

James ended up throwing up towards the end of day shift. He doesn't really get a break his last bolus feed is from 4:00pm to 4:45pm and then his continuous feed starts at 6:00pm. We've noticed that after his last bolus feed he has thrown up a few times.

"Just making sure you're still there..."


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


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