Corgan was fine this morning. Doctor Egner came at about 07h30 and extubated Corgan...he was wide awake...I could hear him breathing and hiccupping. He also sneezed twice. He didn't cry though. He had to wear an oxygen mask. He is now on CPAP...I got a chance to see his whole face when Silindile adjusted the mask. Silindile let me hold Corgan in my arms for the first time and she let me do some Kangaroo Care for about ten minutes. Shane also had a chance to hold him. It was the best time with Corgan so far. When we returned in the evening, Silindile met us at the door looking down...she told us that Corgan had been put back on the ventilator about an hour ago because he had become too exhausted trying to breathe on his own...It was very disappointing....Corgan seemed very tired and weak...he was very pale...when we saw him and he was in the deepest sleep we had seen him in yet... he woke up later with half the energy he usually has and seemed quite shaky. It was so sad to see him back on the ventilator...not only for us but he seems to really hate having the ET tube in his nose...The ventilator was set back up to 55bpm. Hardly a beep the entire time we were with him. Gervais was on duty. We had a good cry together while eating our supper in the car...I don't think either of us ate much...we saw Dot (the midwife) in the NICU and she gave us words of encouragement reminding us how strong Corgan has been so far and how strong he is for such a small baby boy. We love him so much. Doctor Egner came to speak to us and to tell us himself that Corgan had to be re-intubated as his lungs seem to be too immature at present. He turned the ventilator down to 45 bpm and said that he would wean Corgan off again and perhaps within the next 4 to 5 days he might try take Corgan off again. By the time we left Corgan was acting more like his old self and was starting to wiggle about and upset the machines....
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