We are home! Chester graduated from the NICU this morning after being event free for a week. The medical team sent him off in style with a ribbon tunnel, a graduation cap, and diploma. We are now home on oxygen (1/16L) and a monitor. We are so happy to have him home and healthy. Stella …
Chester is doing great. He now weighs 3 pounds 9 ounces. He now takes all of his food by bottle and has his feeding tube removed. He also moved to low flow oxygen. This is the type of oxygen he canngo home on and wean off of as he gets older (Colorado air is tough …
Chester is doing a great job bottle feeding. He is now 6 pounds 3 ounces. He is working on the last stage of his feeding chart which is going from every other feed by bottle to every feed by bottle. He also switched from fortified breastmilk to a mixture of breastmilk feeds and prescription formula. …
Chester had a huge week! He weighs 3371 g or 5 pounds 2 oz. On Saturday, instead of going down by 1 on his CPAP settings he switched all the way to high flow nasual cannula of 2. This was a big surprise for Mom and Dad who were told that decrease would take over …
Chester passed some big milestones this week. He now weighs 2132 gramss or 4.7 pounds. He moved from his isolate to a open crib and is doing a great job regulating his temprature. Chester also moved from the level 4 to the level 2 NICU. They call this the step up NICU and is where …
Chester made great progress this week. He weighs 1810 g or 4 pounds. This is a big milestone because it is the minimum weight for NICU babies to come home. He also was moved from the NAVA to the CPAP which is a less supportive ventilator. He is doing very well with that change and …
Our days look a little different than most new parents. At the beginning we were in a multiperson room and did not get to do much contact time until he was stable. After a week, we moved to a private room and started working towards the schedule we have now. Every day, Mom and Dad …
Chester has had a stable period for a while. He is now 1440 grams of 3 pounds 2 ounces. He has been working on condensing his food from continuously being feed to more of a traditional meal feed with breaks. He is upto getting a 45 minute break in-between his feeds. There was a small …
Chester had a great week. He is 39 cm and 1130 grams (2.5 lbs). He is now getting all of his nutrients from Mommy’s breastmilk with a fortifier to make it more caloric. Due to this, he had his central line removed. Chester is eating more and more everyday and is up to 8.5 ml …
Chester made good progress this week. He is now 1040 grams and 38 cm. After starting the week with a belly full of gas, the doctors made some changes. He is on a different breathing device called a NOVA that looks at the movement of his diaphragm and only gives him extra breaths if he …