Yesterday's big news was Kiernan came off the cannela machine. This machine was providing puffs of air to remind him to breathe and forces him to take big enough breaths to fill his lungs each time. They took him off of it yesterday to see if he could do it on his own and he was successfully able to breathe and did not have any alarms.
So he is much happier without the breathing tubes on his face- which he kept trying to remove anyway. He is still under the blue UV lights as his bilirubin counts have been erratic since he has started to ingest milk.
Both Kiernan and Graydan are getting 1 cc of milk, and tolerating it really well! They both look forward to actual meal time and should be moving to more in a few days!
We are still waiting to hear back on Graydan's cultures to see if he does have a bit of a cold or if he's just learning to cough. Every now and then he has fits of coughing, and the nurses were thinking a slight cold could explain why he was slower to eat the first day. Once we get the results back on the cultures, they think a lot of his alarms will stop once the antibiotics start working.
They were both happy and resting when we were there. Each only had 1 alarm each, so a massive improvement from the night before when they had about 3 each while we were there. Every day is getting better and easier for them. They are still slightly ahead of the growing curve with being able and ready to get milk and come off any of the machines. Most premies at their age are on all the machines for another few days at least, so coming off the blue UV lights and the Cannela line is a great step forward! Keep it up cuties!
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