Weight

(Original appeared April 25, 2016)

The nurse weighed him today and even after the benefits of renewed kidney function he is now up to 1lb 9 oz. As a bit of quick history, his birth weight was 1 lb 7oz. He dropped to 1-4 in the first week, and then slowly gained over the second week to his current weight. This is positive news and suggests that mom’s milk is helping quite a bit.

The next oddity his is bilirubin level. We still need to get that under control because it jumped once again to a high level despite meds. We don’t want jaundice to set in.

The doc spent some good time with Deb again today. He comforted her by adding at the end of his report: he’s just acting like a 23-weeker. This helps put things into perspective for us. What we see as odd or dangerous, they anticipate as normal. I’m glad we have a good medical team. -R