That Blasted Cannula!

Yeah, I'm put out with it, lol. We can't get it to stay on unless we put tons of tape on the poor baby. It stinks. I mean, he's adorable, and with all that tape on him, well, his cuteness is being hidden!

The other morning, I woke up because he was wiggling around. I figured it was time to feed him. When I looked at him, he wasn't quite awake yet, as he usually is. So I watched him for a few minutes and figured I would go ahead and get him up. Maybe he was uncomfortable, maybe he needed a diaper change ... and when I got a better look at him, that blasted cannula was in his ear! Oh yeah, his ear was getting plenty of oxygen ... No telling how long it had been like that, but he was hooked up to the pulse ox and it never went off. I watched him for about 20 minutes with the cannula around his ear and he was satting in the high 90's and even at 100. Okay ... well, Dr. Schultz did say that if it came off, just give it a little bit and see how he does ...

So, with him doing so well with it in his ear, we decided to not worry about it fitting right in his nose all day long. It came out several times and finally my husband decided to just take it off and see how he does. We left the pulse ox on and watched him all day and he did wonderful. Now ... he has been on the oxygen ever since because we aren't sure exactly what it was Dr. Schultz wanted us to do as far as weening him. She did say when we were in her office that, at the time of March 23, she would give it another couple of weeks before we tried him off the oxygen. So ... the miracle of it all is ... he went 12 hours Sunday without his oxygen. He never changed colors, he never seemed to labor in his breathing. He seemed, overall, much happier just to have that thing off his face! But like I said ... he's had it on ever since Sunday evening because we aren't sure what we are really supposed to do.

So, we're just waiting. I pray he is ready. He seems to be doing ssooo well. He is growing like a bad weed. He gets chunkier every single day! And more alert, and he stays awake for much longer periods of time. And LAST NIGHT ... He slept from 11PM to 7AM and WOWEEE! I enjoyed sleeping from about 1 to 7 .... very nice!

I have some pictures of him from Easter that I will add when I get them off the camera. It's just a matter of doing it. I'm taking a break from working right now because I work remotely and needed someone to remap the drive for me ... since it's done now, I will go finish what I was doing and then cook some lunch for my husband!

Oh ... I almost forgot, we have selections for his baby shower at Wal-Mart and Target. You can look them up online or go to the store. I think you need to know my first and last name in order to look them up online, but it's a neat set up if you can't get to a store! If you have trouble or questions, give me a shout and I'll try to help ... Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you all on May 3rd at Kadin's Shower !!! YAY !!!

Leslie