Day 6 in NICU

This morning when I went in Lincoln was still under lights.  His billiruben went down one level, but they anticipated it peaking so they decided to keep him on the low intensity lights one more day.

He had spit a lot of his feedings up with almost every attempt so they increased his feeding time with the pump from 60 to 90 minutes and lowered his amount of food to 62 vs 68ml.  He seemed to feel better with that change.  He gained a half ounce from yesterday.  Feeding may be our new hurdle.

They also took him off the CPAP machine and put him on a nasal therm which was a level 3 vs 6 pressure in the lungs.  He reacted really well with it and they decreased it to 2 within the first hour.  So far he has maintained his oxygen in the 90%.  This should also help with the bubbles in his tummy and spitting.  I also got excited because they promised at level 2 he would start attempting to eat with a bottle or breast feed.

We tried to breast feed tonight but he was way too drowsy.  He made it about 30 seconds.  Better luck tomorrow I guess.  :)