11/17/2010

We have had only a few changes today. Colton has graduated to level two NICU which is great, but now there are split up between two places. They are continuing to go up on his feeds by one cc, and so far he is doing good with that.  Today he weighed 4 lbs 6 oz!  Jackson was doing great maintaining his blood pressure on Dopamine at 9 mcg, but the doctors think by getting his pressure a little bit higher he will have better urine output.  He had a set of blood cultures drawn today to make sure there is no underlying infections.  One of the spots they drew blood was his head and he is contiunily draining fluid from it, so much they are measuring it.  He did have one really wet diaper earlier in the day but it was after a dose of lasix, so that could be why.  We are hoping that he will continue to have diapers like that without the lasix. They started him on what they call trophic feeds, which is just a small amount to coat his stomach.  Today he had pedialyte at half a cc an hour, and maybe tomorrow he will get milk.