Happy Hunter

Hunter's Weight: 5 lbs, 7 oz.

Hunter's nurses have noticed that he seems to be getting bored with his crib. Yesterday Nurse suggested that we should bring in a bouncer seat for him. Now he can sit up and look around, and that's exactly what he is doing. He was more active today than I remember seeing him before. He was sitting in his bouncer and looking all over the place while swinging his hands back and forth.

He is still on CPAP, the pictures from yesterday were taken when they were cleaning him. Yesterday they had disconnected him from everything for a short time, no CPAP, feeding tube, or chest sensors. After being off of CPAP for a few minutes his saturation went way down and they had to hurry to get it back on.

Tomorrow they will have to remove the CPAP for a little while because they are going to do his swallow test. They need to determine if he can eat properly, but he can't eat with all that air blowing down his nose. Nurse said that if it turns out that it is a reflux problem he will likely be coming off of CPAP soon and will just be treated by medication. She also said that most babies have reflux and that he should be much better by the time he comes home.