Birthday Fun

Today was my Birthday and for a gift, I got to sit and hold Brayden for about an hour and half. It was great to just sit there and rock back and forth feeling his little hear beat against my chest. That is until he got mad and yanked on a handful of my chest hairs. Miranda got a good laugh out of it, while I tried hard not to yell out. She laughed...I cried...Brayden just kept pulling.

We spoke with Dr. Hamilton, the doctor who saved his life the first night his lungs collapsed, on the phone on our way into the NICU. She told us that Brayden's blood culture had so far come back negative but his morning urine sample had come back with more white blood cells in it. The number was reduced a little bit from yesterday but still a little on the high side. The doctor said that the antibiotics seem to be working and that Brayden is looking better. Tomorrow his normal doctor, Dr. Nesslein will be back and we will see what her next course of action is, thus far the doctors have just left him on CPAP to try and get a little stronger. Yesterday they tried taking him off for a couple of hours while Miranda held him but he began to desat again. We are both kind of afraid that he is becoming dependent on the extra pressure. Hopefully Dr. Nesslein has a good plan for moving forward and we can get him off the CPAP soon.

Sorry there are no recent pictures, i have bee falling behind on my picture taking. I promise some new pics tomorrow.