... or 12 weeks... or 36 weeks gestation.
A big day for me and Ryan today - a day I thought was a long way off/might never happen, but the stars aligned (I just spelled stats instead of stars, but his stats aligned as well;-) and we were able to take him off his biphasic machine and put him on 'high flow' for some NNS. Let me explain. What is high flow? It is straight up oxygen delivered through nasal prongs - no mask, no pressures. Facial freedom. What is NNS? Non Nutritive Sucking. It's basically breastfeeding minus the feeding part. It's just to let Ryan 'explore' and smell, and if we're lucky (which we were) to get a wee bit of milk. They don't want him to actually feed, because he obviously doesn't know how and would choke. He was on high flow for 35 mintues, just what the doctor wanted him to start with. Tomorrow they'd like to have him do an hour, and so on and so on every day until eventually they can get him to cpap, then to low flow, then home. This can apparently be a LONG process, but I'm glad the wheels are in motion. It was great to see everyone's excitement about our lil milestone today. RTs and nurses were all pretty smiley. I'm feeling hesitantly happy because I'm still scared of setbacks but I'll take this small victory for what it was. Good boy. Good night.
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