Day 8 - A Breath of Fresh Air

Today Milo is doing great. The nurse wanted to let him rest and extubate tomorrow but our doctor wanted to get him back to normal activity so they decided to extubate after his noon x-ray. Shelly and I were there holding him as his tube was pulled out.

Hanging out before his extubation

Baby Milo finally has his breathing tube out

Back to the CPAP and doing well. Those holes in his tummy are doing great too (even though they look pretty scary)

No luck on getting insurance to pay for the pump in Portland so we are just going to borrow an extra one from Megan. My dad is headed here tomorrow and will thankfully be bringing another bag of our stuff (I only brought one pair of pants). I had to take off in the middle of our day here to get to the dentist. A while back one of my fillings popped out and I have been in denial about needing to go into the dentist. Two nights ago however, a bit of my tooth came off while flossing which inspired me to jump into action on that. The dentist put in a temporary filling and said I will probably need a root canal when we get back to Medford in a couple weeks. Terrible.

Shelly finally got to hold Milo again this evening after a week of not being able to. They couldn't do skin to skin yet because of his tubiness but they moved his whole cushion with him on it and Shelly held him for an hour. 

Mama is so happy to be holding her baby. (See Video on Facebook)

The nurse, Elisabeth, who was assigned to our baby today was very sweet. She said she was so proud of how he is doing. He was able to keep his temperature up while Shelly was holding him (one of his many criteria for getting released) and he is pooping! Even without being on food right now. This means everything is working well and he has an outlet for some of his bilirubin. The nurses call him a little gentleman because of his temperament. Now that he has his tube out, he will start crying again (though he'll have to work up to it since his throat is probably a little hoarse from the tube). He was crying while Elisabeth changed his diaper and literally the moment she attached the second side he stopped and was calm again. So cute! He also is VERY good at grabbing his tubes and pulling on them. Elisabeth says that if he keeps it up they will put him in the "Mittens of Shame" which are actually just socks they put on the babies hands so they can't pull on their tubes. 

We can't wait to head back tomorrow and hold him again.