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...