Day 6

We got good news and bad news from the doctors today.  The good news was that his breathing improved enough that they extubated him and put him on a CPAP overnight.  We finally got to see his cute little mouth!  He seemed much more comfortable on the CPAP than on the ventilator, even though he’s still adapting to it.  (Apparently he was at one time sucking so hard on his pacifier that he kept forgetting to breathe).

The bad news is that the PDA didn’t close, so they’re going to have to do another round of medicine to see if that works.  If not, they may want to do surgery, so we are keeping our fingers crossed that the medicine will work.  We can’t progress to trying to feed him solid food until the PDA issue is resolved.