Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Kangaroo again

Today Carter had a good day Kangarooing with mommy. Since he doesn't have his oxygen in his nose, the nurses have an oxygen tube blowing on his face constantly. His vitals were very stable all day.

Tonight however he scared us. He had a long period (seemed very long, was actually 2-3 minutes) where he de-satted (desaturated his blood of oxygen). This happens when they aren't breathing properly, either too shallow or not at all. We had to jostle him a little and flip him over on his back while the nurse increased his oxygen. It was scary. His vitals tonight are relatively erratic and we are just hoping he calms down. It'll be a tough nights sleep.