My kid doesn't suck.

We got to kangaroo a couple of days ago! You know how he cried earlier with the wet naps? Well guess what happened? (Insert humorous story here) I would love to be like tha parents of the other blogs and tell you the baby burped or something, butnothing interesting happened. Don’t get me wrong, it was fun and amazing and I will do it again the next time I see him, but not funny. We have had a different day nurse for 3 days in a row now, and the one who let us kangaroo was the right nurse on the right day. Some nurses are all about putting the baby in bed and letting him sleep all day. I’m down with the sleeping, but golly! The doctor says that we can kangaroo when Jordan is stable. That means when Jordan is stable, it’s time for the nurses to baby up!
You want to know how young he is? We have started to give him a properly sized pacifier. He doesn’t like it. He’ll suck for about 30 seconds, but then push it out. He doesn’t cry or fuss or teeth, so he doesn’t need the pacifier yet. However, we need to get him used to it pretty soon. We don’t need him to necessarily use the pacifier, but we’ll need him to learn how to suck so he can eat from the bottle. He isn’t behind schedule or anything, but he needs to be able bottle before going home. One thing that I can say to most people reading this. Your kids suck more than my kid. Terri, your kid sucks. Trisha, your kid sucks. Mom, your kid sucks. My kid doesn’t suck.
The nurses moved him to the isolette last night. He is not desatting as much or as badly, but he has started playing a little game. The amount of oxygen in the blood is the percent of his saturation. For you and me, we can keep it above 90 when we are healthy without any effort. The doctors want to keep him about 90 which he can usually do. However, the alarms don’t go off until he gets above 95 or below 85. Every once in a while though, he’ll go down to 80 or even 70. He’ll get the alarm going real good which brings the nurse over – then he brings it back up on his own. I have literally seen him go from 100 down to 80 and then back to 100 in a minute flat. The mama Ali hates it when I say this, but I think he just flirts with the nurses to get attention. He has already figured out how to get the women to answer his every beck and call. He is going to make a fine Morehouse man one day.