Deecon hits another milestone~ 1KG CLUB RIBBON

Today Deecon hit an amazing and long awaited milestone... he was honoured with a 1kg Club ribbon for hitting 1000grams (two pounds 3oz) :) We were so proud of his accomplishment, so it was hung proudly on his incubator. His feeds are increasing each time he is weighed because he is getting bigger each day. His feeds have been increased to 6.2ml/hr continuous. They notified me that they are now adding some nutrition and have now increased adding two packages of fortifier to my breast milk to help him gain weight. They have now also decided to help regulate the temperature in his isolate to be a little warmer because his body temperature has been slightly low and they find that he is working too hard and burning too many calaries to keep his temperature up. And we need to save as many calories as possible so that he can gain, gain, gain.. :) Great news is that they have now tested Deecon's blood for reticking (making of his own red blood cells) and his results turned out excellent, a count of 181. This is exciting, but it does take some time for the immature cells to turn into red blood cells and raise his hemoglobin.. Time will tell but this is a great sign. Deecon is having some problems with his nose prongs on his Aladdin ventilator. His nostrils are so small that they don't have prongs that fit properly. The prongs have been putting major pressure on his little nose, causing distress because he has no cartilage to protect it... so they have made up a plastic piece called a candilaid to put in between his nose prongs and nose. This will help to relieve his nose from some of the pressure. They are also very careful to rotate between the prongs and mask each day. As he gets older and bigger cartilage will grow and he will no longer have this problem..He's getting to be such a big boy... 2KG CLUB...... HERE DEECON COMES :)