A little bump in the road

I had hoped this blog would be really boring, and every day I'd just tell you that he's doing better and better. But it seems that Cooper partied too hard on Saturday night and by Sunday morning he was lethargic, his temperature was a bit low, and he was dropping his oxygen saturation. They ended up putting him on oxygen for most of the day.

The care team told me that sometimes babies can just have off days, or days when they might be using more energy for a "growth spurt". They weren't terribly concerned, because he did respond well to oxygen and to the warming bed. However, he's on thin ice, and if he continues with his shenanigans, they will need to do a bigger workup. They're hard pressed to believe it could be an infection, because he is already being blasted with antibiotics for NEC and meningitis. 

Coop did perk up as the day went on. He finally got cranky when we did his afternoon diaper change, and he was awake and alert for a good while after that. 

While I was at the weekly "NICU 101" class they offer, Cooper pulled out his oxygen, because he's a punk. They let it stay out for a little while after I left, but once he started sleeping again, his sats dropped, so it looks like he's got it for another night.

It's probably not a huge deal, but it was a bit of a bummer seeing another intervention being added rather than taken away. He hasn't struggled with breathing before, except for right after he was born. But he's a tough little nugget, and I know this is just a tiny bump in the road.