Day 28 - A "Chillin" Father's Day

Before I talk about today, I neglected to write about something very important... Harris was promoted from the regular NICU to the Special Care Nursery on Friday (Day 26). When he was able to sustain himself on 1.0 liters the doctors felt that he was ready. The SCN is just another room in the NICU but it is where babies go to finish developing before they go home and definitely progress! Also, it is much more relaxed there and the whole feel is different parents are less anxious, nurses are louder and more relaxed (which is crazy because they are the same nurses from the NICU, the lights are brighter and the staff really push the families to do more to get ready to go home. NOW.. going home is not at all being talked about but we are still thrilled about this move.

So, Harris and Dad celebrated their first father's day today in the SCN. It is amazing to watch them together. Adam is amazing and overprotective at the same time and it absolutely delights me to watch the interaction. After two days of less successful feedings (by Mom) Harris finished a bottle for us today - a Father's Day gift for sure.

Harris has been having a good couple of days so the doctors tried to increase his feedings to every other feeding and reduce his oxygen input to 0.5 liters. Tonight when the doctors were on rounds one of the residents said "Well Harris is having a chillen day" and by chillen he meant that Harris has officially told us to "chill with the changes." Our little man was not able to adjust to the changes well, he had desats (some of the worst ones we have seen with both dips in oxygen and heart rate - in fact Adam didn't believe me when I had told him they got that bad - now he does). They weren't long lived, and he was able to get himself out of them with out a raise in oxygen, but they were serious enough to ensure us all that Harris will continue to take his time - so it is back to bottle every three feedings and oxygen at 1.0 liters for a bit longer.


Despite this we had a great Father's Day - filled with lots of cuddling for dad and visits from Grammy, Pop and Hayley.