Hey everyone, thought I'd pass along an update for today, Tuesday the 5th. Zac's tests for everything regarding infection and how his oxygen is being processed, etc., are coming back just fine. Yesterday they did an MRI, I think it was, on his kidneys and liver and everything there looks good, too.
Today is he back on the lights for his jaundice. They advised us this is fairly typical. Hopefully he'll continue improvements and get that treatment out of the way for good here in the next day or two. The nurses advised us that he had 34 episodes of apnea yesterday, which is a fair number, but that today so far he's been better. It's my understanding that as of this writing, which is 5:25pm CST, he's had about 7 so far today. Right now as I sit here in his room, he's resting well, though suddenly very active as I see him kicking his feet up in the air quite a bit!
I did some reading on this and apparently the nervous system for premature babies isn't fully developed yet, so they make kind of jerky movements sometimes with their arms and legs. Same movements regular newborns make, just a little less smooth. :)
Katy has spend much of today here with Zac, as we arrived a little after 11 this morning. I had a computer job to work on, but returned here around 3:30 and we intend to stay for awhile yet. No new pics to post just yet, as not much has changed and we can't take him out of his little bed today, but maybe tomorrow! Take care all.
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I'm happy to know Aunt Katy is doing better and that Cousin Zac is doing great, too.
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