Everything is on track to get to go home tomorrow! He got an EKG done this morning and everything seems to be normal- considering his CHD. They changed his oxygen from blended (oxygen and room air) to 100% oxygen, because he can go home on that. His feeding tube was pulled out, YAY!! He failed the room air challenge, which was expected. But that just means we needed to keep him on oxygen at home too.
Apria was contacted to bring us our oxygen tank and pulse oximeter. They came about 5pm and showed us how to work all the equipment. All the beeping and noise from both the hospitals machine and out new pulse ox was a little overwhelming. Anxiety was kicking in and I was kind if freaking out.
The NICU has these rooms with bed and showers that they mainly use for babies that are going home so that the parents can room in with their baby and basically have a dry run, with nurses on standby if needed. So we had the room scheduled for tonight so we could practice with all the cords and monitors.
We got all settled into our room and Jefferson hooked up to both our monitor (that we will be taking home) and the hospitals monitor, to compare. We ended up turning off our monitor after a couple hours because it kept saying system error. So we will just have then bring us a new one in the morning.
Jefferson is a great sleeper. He just wakes up to eat and then goes right back to sleep. It was the beeping of the monitor that kept us up most of the night. Every time it beeped, it startled us and woke us up. It would just take time to get use to it. But we did pretty good working together as a team last night. I think we can handle this!
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