Every Sunday night, they measure Jordan’s length. He is now 14 inches – three full inches longer than at birth. They also weigh him every night. He is 898 grams. That’s 2 pounds! The doctors celebrated by upping his feeds. Actually, they didn’t celebrate at all, but they did up his feeds. He is eating so much now that they apparently have stopped bothering to tell us. They used to tell us when they upped his feeds. Now we don’t find out until either we ask, or we get there and see the machine. In the past, I said that one shouldn’t look more than 2 or 3 days in the future. However, things have been going so well lately, that we now talk about the upcoming week. The mama Ali and I talk about what will happen during the next week. If our doctor wasn’t on vacation, we’d ask her what we could expect during the next week. Right now, I am looking forward to seeing how much they’ll be feeding by the end of the week. He gained over 100 grams during the last week and now they are feeding him more.
In the NICU, nurses work with 2 babies for each 12 hour shift. Nurses usually work 3 days a week and usually keep the same baby for the entire 3 days. I don’t like the day nurse that started yesterday. She didn’t let us hold the baby yesterday. The reasoning is actually so bass ackwards that I had to share. We didn’t get to hold the baby because he was doing so well, she didn’t want to disturb him and risk him desatting. I guess that means that this nurse won’t let us hold the baby until he’s doing real crappy. Maybe if Jordan gets a real bad infection and gets back on the ventilator she will let us kangaroo! If I can’t hold the baby when he’s doing well, and I can’t hold him when he’s doing bad, then when do I get to hold him. This isn’t a political blog, but I swear I know what party this nurse belongs to. All I know is that if we don’t get to hold the baby until Wednesday, I’m going to tell the doctor on her!
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Two pounds, yipeee! Go, Ali, go!
Just as an aside: This is the first time in history I've ever rooted for someone to GAIN weight (well, with the exception of Whitney Houston during those "crack is whack" years) :)
I check this page like I check my email, so I usually only get one post or so every time I check it. Well, I haven't checked in a few days for obvious reasons. Today was like Christmas...5 new posts to read, and I haven't done a lick of work. I feel like I was gone so long, but I'm happy he is doing so well!!! And I even got a pic of daddy and baby! BTW, I've already saved it as my desktop, but I guess the politically correct thing to do would be ask permission...Soooo, can I get a copy of the pic?
Just caught this...
"All real cry like what real babies do! It made us feel like real parents."
WTF? Cut this "real" parents/ babies crap. I might be paying unnecessary attention to language, but language can be a reflection of thought. Your situation isn't the regular, but Jordan is an honest to God flesh and blood baby boy and you are his Mommy and Daddy, no matter what the situation is. If that doesn't make you "real" parents, then I don't know what does. But I do know that if you imply that my nephew is anything less than a "real" baby again, I might have to come see you bout that...
Nice of you to call him on that Traci. You too Gail for a comment weeks ago.
Mama Ali
Hi thanks for findin and commenting on my blog. I look forward to reading all about baby Jordan when I have time to read your old posts. Yes, unfortunately it is true...getting through the NICU is just one chapter of the many chapters of a 23 weekers life. However, the rewards are greater than I could have ever imagined, so we take things little by little and celebrate each and every new exciting thing they do! Congratulations of your special miracle!
I gotta throw myself behind Big Ali on this one, since it seems that no one else will. I get what you meant about the crying; your son was giving a strong cry, not a whimper, but a external manifestation of the inner strength Lil' Ali possesses. Blogs are not meant to be perfect, nor politically correct. They are a reflection of a person's thoughts and feelings AT THAT TIME. As my friend Matt would say, "I smell what you're stepping in, Big Ali."
Wow, Jordan is such a fighter!! He seems to be doing really good. Keep your focus on that. I know it is frustrating that you don't get to hold him now (and believe me, when we didn't like what a nurse did, we 'told' the doctor or head nurse. It never really helped :) ) However, there will be so many days in your future you are going to hold him. Stay positive, and before you know it, you will have him in your arms, AT HOME!!! Michael was in the NICU over 5 months, he has been home 1 month and if I look back, it didn't seem so long after all :)
Hang in there and like Traci said, we would love to see some pictures of your little miracle boy...
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