Day 66 - Kangaroo care, Inguinal Hernia & ROP update

My dear little boy, papa met the consultant today, she said you have poor weight gain as you are only weight at 1475g at 37 weeks adjusted age. She said you shall be at 2kg. The consultant has suggested to start kangaroo care for you.

So, when we visited you in the evening, your mom was doing the very first time kangaroo care with you on her chest.

You are so adorable. First time we see you out of the incubator. Your mom hold you with both hands and put you skin to skin with her chest. You were so calm, and you sleep tight.

I know you must be very happy. Listening to the familiar heart beats, the aroma of your mom body smell, the body warm that went thru your body via the skin to skin connection.

You are on alternate CPAP and oxygen air blender. You respiration system is still weak.

Doctor Yip said that you will need to go through the hernia repair surgery before you discharge.

As for your ROP, one of your eye has developed ROP stage 1. I hope it will be resolved by itself in 2-3 weeks time.

You started to have good weight gain last week. Hope to see you crossing 1500g mark this week.

God bless!

Day 65 - Oxygen-air blender, 22ml feeding

Son, you are on oxygen-air blender today. The setting is Oxygen 30%, Pressure 3.

Your feeding has increased to 22ml every 2 hours. It is a new milestone for you. Your feeding has been hovering between 16-20ml for many weeks.

You like to cry a lot. Your mom said it is ok as you are still a baby. She sing songs to calm you down. You hold her finger tight.

We believe you cry because you are hungry. Maybe the feeding is still lesser than what you really need. To overcome that, you need to digest the milk well, so that doctor will increase the volume gradually.

You are still medicated with ursodeoxycholic acid, I believe your digestion system is still not mature yet.

You are very aggressive. I hope you will be having such aggressiveness in pursuing your dreams while you are growing up.

Get well soon.

God bless!

 

Day 64 - 1475g, ROP Stage 1, CPAP Oxygen 23%

Boy, papa was not around for the last 2 days. Papa received your progress update from your mom.

You were detected with ROP stage 1 on last 2 day, day 62. A follow up eye exam will be carried out on day 69. 

If your ROP is not going to worse off, high chances it will be resolved by itself. Let's pray that you will be alright.

You have good weight gain recently. Your weight today is 1475g, another 25g to cross the 1500g milestone. 

Your milk feeding has also increased to 20ml every 2 hours. Hope that you will digest well and eventually can increase the feeding further.

You sleep well in the evening when we visited you. Oxygen saturation is good, calm breathing and steady heart rate.

Stay strong boy.

God bless!