My 5th Sunday here....29 days in the NICU. Mom says it seems like more than that. I thought I was going to pack my bag and hit the road sometime this week but, unfortunately, it will be a bit longer. On April 10th, I had a sleep apnea spell which means I stopped breathing for a few seconds when I was sleeping. I got myself out of it and it's fairly common here in the NICU but, each time this happens to me, I get stuck with 5 more days here at BIDMC. It's a bummer! My Mom and Dad also signed me up for a "car seat test." This is a test where I'm put in my car seat for 90 minutes to make sure my breathing is ok when I'm upright since I'll be in my car seat a lot. I did pretty good on my first one and have 2 more this week. Besides that, I'm working on increasing my endurance with my feedings. I am doing really well with my bottle feedings but I do get pooped out every now and then. The nurses want to make sure I can handle all my feedings orally before I go home so I don't lose all this good weight I've put on recently. Have I told you? I'm a big, bad 5 pounds and 10 ounces now.
In other news, I had a few more visitors this week and one special one even got to hold me! I also got another bath today. Mom loves giving me a bath because all my wires come off and the beeping from those annoying machines get turned to silent and we just pretend we're out of the hospital for a bit. Today she was about to put me in my bath and I pooped in her hand! I'd say it was a pretty good catch and she found it funny. I sure hope she has a lot of diapers at home. We're going to need them! After that we snuggled, read some books and she showed me some pictures of all the people who love me. I can't wait until my first Sunday in Southie.
Enjoy your week everyone. Love, Max
Grammy Shen
(After my bath)
xoxo.
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