Drama Prince

Okay, if you know my parents then you understand this title. It has been said that my mommy is a bit of a drama queen and there are a few people that would say my daddy is a drama king at times. It's not that they really make everything more dramatic than it needs to be, but....Let's just say that they always seem to get stuck in the middle of something that gets blown out of proportion.

Well, it appears that I am following in their foot steps. First with the whole escaping from mommy 3 months early and the continuing NICU saga.....It seems to be one thing after another. So the doctors feel they have established that I did not have a staph infection as the gram stain culture thingy suggested...They now believe I was just "wonky" (daddy's word for Zander + weird) due to the steroids leaving my system. But now, I've been spitting up some of my food on a semi-consistent basis. Mommy and daddy were told today that it's probably just a little reflux and nothing to worry about. I'm still eating really good and they increased the amount I get to eat again today. I am now able to have 96-100 CCs per 12 hour period. I guess the doctors feel that if I happen to spit up 1 CC here or there, then it's really not a big deal. They tell mommy that reflux is pretty common in babies like me.

Today I've done pretty good other than the reflux issue. I've had maybe two true apnic episodes where my heart rate decreases along with my oxygen saturation, but otherwise my O2 saturation has been in the 90's on 30-44% O2, depending on the time of day.

I'm wearing a blue outfit today and my bed is all newly clean since I spit on everything else and I'm just hanging out with mommy and daddy in my room. Mommy finally understands what it means to be doing constant laundry. Grandma Domo kept warning mommy about the amount of laundry loads she would be doing, but mommy just couldn't comprehend. Mommy does a load every evening now...although they are tiny loads because I'm a tiny baby. She says it's great that the NICU has a washing machine so she doesn't have to leave the hospital to do my laundry. Sometimes, when mommy and daddy really don't want to leave me...They do their laundry here too. The hospital does not seem to mind, at least they haven't complained about it yet.

Mommy and daddy are going to meet with Carla, the March of Dimes Family Support Specialist tomorrow evening and make baby blankets for me. Since they both work they miss out on all the fun activities that Carla plans during the day. And daddy actually told mommy that he really wanted to make a blanket for me...So mommy begged Carla to show them how tomorrow...And she agreed. Sounds great to me, I'll have extra blankets:)

Mommy gets to have Monday off for Memorial day. Daddy will probably have it off too, but he will more than likely have to work on Saturday and Sunday instead. Like daddy says, "Someone's gotta make the windows".

Have a good night:)