March 18 - Oliver has acute face... ;)

Oliver did well through the night. He stopped bleeding and this morning he was granted permission to eat more. He is very pleased with this news! He still is no where near full feeds, but he's getting closer. We are slightly concerned that he hasn't had a soiled diaper since 4:00 this morning so everyone will be watching his output very closely today. Every drop of fluid going into or out of Oliver is carefully weighed to make sure he is balanced. His heart rate dropped a little several times last night. At rounds this morning they ordered an EKG and more blood cultures. I am not completely sure what they are checking for-the EKG is scheduled for 2:00 this afternoon-but the heard rate decels don't have me too worried at this point...all of Oliver's cardio stuff has looked great since he was born. Oliver's urine culture came back positive with the same infection that is in his blood. There was a change made to his antibiotic prescription this morning so that we can treat the urine infection as well. He is also starting to wean off the of Dex (steroids). His platelets were at 8,000 this morning which is higher than the threshold of 5,000 to transfuse but they went ahead and transfused anyway (only 1/2 of what he's been getting).

Despite all of this Oliver is doing remarkably well. He is lethargic but starting to have short periods of being awake-usually only when he's trying to convince the nurse to sneak him a little breast milk-but awake just the same. He still has a pacifier in his mouth 90% of the time and he spends most of the day in our arms. :)