One brief update for tonight. Zac has been doing very well breathing on his own. He's been off the c-pap thing since Saturday morning at 10:30. After the first 24 hours, he'd had only 5 apnea episodes, and had only two last night (part of that total of 5). I was told the episodes he'd had were mild and that he'd pulled himself out of them. Sometimes when a baby has one of these, the nurse (or parent) will stimulate the baby in some way to get them to remember to take another breath. But they haven't had to do that so far, and that's good progress.
Also, because he's doing so well, they upped his food intake to 15ml every 3 hours. It was 10ml just yesterday. He's done well keeping it down, though he did spit up just a bit earlier today while I was holding him. Probably just a slight upset tummy or something, but not much and he seemed to feel just fine afterward (I know because I asked our nurse to make sure). :)
When we arrived today, they had moved the i.v. from his foot to his head. We weren't crazy about that because, well, it just looks like it'd hurt. :) Before we left for supper tonight with Katy's mom, the nurse was about to move it to his hand. Turns out his head wasn't so crazy about having it in there either, I guess! No new pics tonight, but hopefully some more by tomorrow.
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