Some Ups and Downs

Today Jack is 10 days old (27 weeks 5 days gestation age). He weighed in at 2 lbs 2.6 ozs (980 grams), that is up 1.6 ozs (40 grams). We arrived to do his care and he also got a visit from Great Uncle Mike and Great Aunt Mary. They were both surprised at how smaller he looked in person than in the videos, but said he was the cutest. Uncle Mike got to watch me change a very poopy diaper, still no more rejected feeding (hooray Jack way to digest!!). They have decided to up his feeding amounts from 2ml to 3ml per feeding. They're trying to get him all plumped up. Jack didn't do alot of fussing today during his care. Either he has gotten adjusted to us messing with him, or he was tired.

Jack has been having some apnea issues and had to be moved from his CPAP machine to a SIPAP machine. They are very similar. The CPAP kept a steady pressure inside Jack's lungs to keep them from deflating when he exhaled. The SIPAP does the pressure thing, but also aids him in breathing by assisting with little breaths. Not a ventilator, but should his apnea keep up or increase he would have to be placed back on the ventilator (fingers crossed he gets better). We also noticed a little yellow gunk around his eye. The nurse got it all cleaned up and we will watch for more to appear. Hopefully it won't come back, but if it does it might be an infection and Jack will need to get some antibiotics.