Warren is one week old

Warren had quite the first week in the NICU.  He was initially intubated but was only on a ventilator for less than 24 hours.  He was given one dose of surfactant, which helps with the development of his lungs.  He was then moved to oxygen (skipped completely over CPAP) and was on O2 for only 3 days.  The third day he was on room air, which is so amazing considering how little he is.  For the first day or two he had a TPN which is how he received all of his nutrients without getting any kind of food.  They then slowly started feeding him very small amounts of expressed breast milk (my milk finally came in yay!)  He started with 3 cc's every 3 hours (1 teaspoon)  and they very slowly upped his feeds.  They need to make sure that his little body can handle food and doesn't develop a potentially fatal condition called NEC, an intestinal infection unique to preemies.   He also had a small meningitis scare and had to get a spinal tap, thankfully that came back fine and no infection was found.  The doctors also had to start him on caffeine to help with the small apnea spells and bradycardia spells that he was experiencing.  He did have a little bit of jaundice and had to be under the billi lights for a few days.    At 5 days old he had an ultrasound of his head which revealed no brain bleed which is very common in preemie's but thankfully he never had any. Needless to say the first week was very scary and very stressful.  Everything was progressing fine and he is such a little fighter.