Day 37
Jack is still at 3lbs 1oz, but did gain 20 grams…just not enough to officially gain an ounce. Tomorrow he will be there though.
Jack is being slowing weaned off the ventilator. They lowered his vent settings to only 25 breaths per minute at around 25% oxygen and then took a measurement of his blood gases. His C02 levels were a bit high so they raised his breaths to 30 times per minute. Tomorrow they will most likely try again. Right now Jack is comfortable with the amount of help the ventilator is giving him. In order to get him off that he has to learn to do more on his own. He has been gradually doing that over the past month, but now they are being a bit more aggressive in their approach. Hopefully next week he will be on CPAP
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