In order to avoid a Facebook overload, but keep our families and friends informed without non-stop texting and phone calls...

I created this blog to tell the story of our Baby Boy arrival into the world as a premie.

My water broke March 22nd at 26 weeks pregnant and our Max was born March 25th just before 2:00 in the morning.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

What we know...

After a whole lot of testing and PCMC being able to stabilize Maximus on the oscillating ventilator things are looking up again. :)
He is keeping his oxygen needs to the 30-40% range (21% is room air)
Max does NOT have meningitis, unfortunately they found this out by doing a spinal tap on him. Poor thing!
His brain is looking great, no clots, bleeds, or excess fluid.
He is starting to open his eyes, we saw a few sneak peaks of blue today.
We are all hoping the indomethacin is going to work and close his PDA
Max is also on steroids, which is causing some swelling, mostly in his sweet face. :(
He has a bacterial infection in his lungs :( but he is on antibiotics
My parents have made it possible for me to be able to see him everyday, and I have never felt so lucky even though he is in the NICU I have had countless blessings and wonderful things occur in the last few weeks.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hang on tight - it's gonna be a bumpy ride! We are all right here with you - sending our love and prayers. So glad everything is looking up again :)

Love,

Janica

Justme said...

Awesome news. Good to see the progress. So very glad you can be with him every day! So many little miracles!

Allison said...

How is Max today???