So yesterday Noah turned 1 month old! yay!!!!! He is such a cutie. They say that the NICU experience is one step forward two steps back, we had our two steps back today. Since yesterday Noah has had more apnea episodes but seemed to be acting normal otherwise, so they did some tests today to try to figure out the cause. In the morning they gave him a simple blood test to check his red and white blood cell counts, which came back pretty good. Then they gave Noah an x-ray to make sure that it wasn't something in his lungs causing him to stop breathing, and his lungs and his stomach both looked great. They waited a while and after some more up and down with his oxygen levels they decided that it was time to do more searching and did a urine (poor guy) and blood draw. So, we are waiting for those results which will take 24-48 hours. They also re-did the blood test from the morning and the results came back "suspicious" so they decided to go ahead and start antibiotics in case he does have an infection somewhere. They didn't want to wait the 24-48 hours for concrete results so that if there is something it wouldnt get worse. Long day for such a little guy. He was supposed to get his first REAL bath today, but we'll have to wait until he is feeling better. Please keep him in your prayers to make sure it's nothing too major and he gets through it easily.
Mommy holding Noah while the nurse gave him some clean bedding
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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