Blake Video

Here is a little video of Blake from today. A lot has happened in the past few days. He was having a hard time keeping warm on his own, so they put him back in the incubator looking thing. We were actually kind of happy about it, because he was having a lot of small "problems" while in his bed. Basically, he was spending all of his energy trying to stay warm, and so his heart was slowing down and he was forgetting to breath. This is apparently common with all preemies, but it was a tough thing for us to see anyway. Since he has gone back into the incubator, he has been doing much better and hasn't had any problems. So, he'll probably be there a few more days.

He also went back on the breathing tube, just because of the breathing problems. He'll be fine, and they will ween him off it a little more slowly this time. It isn't doing all of his breathing for him, it just gives him little puffs of air every now and again to remind him to breath.

He got his feeding tube moved out of his mouth and into his nose tonight. There wasn't really a reason for this, but it should help him suck on his bottle a little better. He's been doing well with the bottle, and is up to 3 bottles per day.

The other advantage to the tube being moved is we finally got to see his chin. We had been calling it his "old man chin" because there was all this tape on it holding the tube in place and it was all wrinkled. We were pleased to see that without the tape, the wrinkled chin went away :).

Lindsey is doing great and left the hospital yesterday. She is feeling remarkably well. In fact, all the nurses were fairly amazed at how great she was feeling and how well she was getting around. They are continuing to monitor the blood pressure, which is still up and down. This is apparently a normal thing to occur for several weeks after the birth.

Everything considered, everyone is doing great.