Nov 18...

The past few days have been pretty good for our little man. The have stopped his antibiotics because they were feeling that his left shift or infection numbers were coming down nicely so last night at 10pm was the last dose. He has tolerated his feedings great. Today after rounds we are up to 14 cc's every 4 hours. This is almost 1/2 of an ounce and the most Dylan has ever had and so far he is tolerating them wonderfully and we want to continue on that path!! The other night they did a CT scan on his belly to make sure that everything was looking good and it was!! It was looking so good that they cancelled the upper GI test that they had scheduled for him to have on Thursday. The only thing they did see was the hernia which we already knew about. So this reassures us that there are no tummy issues!!! Yeah!!! That is big news so now we can just focus on the little guy eating, breathing good and growing!! Last night though Dylan had a couple of blood gases that wern't the best so they ended up going up on his vent settings a bit. This concerns mom and dad because they had been at the lowest they can go for the past 3 days. The nurse reassured me this morning that this is typical of a preemie baby and it doesn't mean anything that they are concerned about. His settings are still low just not the lowest like they were. So now we need to focus on him breathing good so we can get them back down and a step closer to CPAP. He is smiling a lot and awake a good amount of time but we like to have him sleep because that is when he grows the most!! So things are looking up and we love that. We are thinking we are on an even path closer to home~ We love you Dylan~