Friday Afternoon Update

It has been a couple of days since we have updated you on things. It has been a little busy here at the hospital. Some great news is that Collin is now at full feeds and I was able to start trying to nurse him yesterday. He showed great signs (he latched on, had a couple of sucks, etc....) but he was very tired during the first attempt so not too much activity. Jason mentioned that he had 13ml residual left from the prior feeding so he probably was very content and not very hungry at that time. We were thinking he would be hungry because that was the time when he would have been fed and were trying to nurse him before the feeding but with all of that residual, it probably wasn't a true attempt for him. They are telling me to try to nurse him 2-3 times a day. They are holding no expectations at this time. This is just to see what he does with it and if he is ready then he his. If not, we will just keep trying. No pressure. The girls will be on full feeds tomorrow so I will be able to attempt to nurse them tomorrow or Sunday.

On a little lower note, we are needing some prayer for Collin. He is doing fine overall but he is struggling just a little and, as a mom and dad, we want him to be as comfortable as possible and he isn't quite there yet. They had taken him off of the cannula and he was doing fine. Yesterday, however, he was working a little too hard again and they put him back on the cannula this morning. They had him on low oxygen and now he is off the oxygen and just on a flow of air to help him relax. His readings are looking good right now. Yesterday we could tell he was exhausted especially when I tried to nurse him. He was so tired he didn't wake up the whole time I was holding him. He seems to be doing well on the flow of air that he is getting. However, Jason tried to hold him earlier and he didn't do too well. He was struggling and was quite pale so we put him back in his isolet to let him rest. He seemed to be very comfortable after we did that. This is not typical Collin. They are running the same tests that they did before. They will look at his blood count and do a culture to see if he has an infection. They will also do a chest xray. Please pray for little Collin. We just want him to get well. It is hard to see him struggle and also very very hard to leave him at night or at all. Who knows we may stick around at night. We'll see. We will keep you posted on the test results.

Thanks for everything

JKABC