Friday, 24 December 2010

Christmas Eve in the NICU

Candice let me do KMC the moment we arrived. I told Corgan that for my Christmas present I want him to weigh 1kg...We continued until Dr Egner arrived, 2 hours later. Corgan then had physiotherapy and then the opthalmologist arrived to conduct an eye test on Corgan to check for ROP - his eyes are perfect. He was then weighed and is now 1,035 kg!!! Almost double his birth weight. Corgan's tummy was distended when we arrived in the evening and he had not passed a stool all day. He desaturated quite a few times and Candice tried a couple methods of coercing Corgan's tummy to work to no avail by the time we had left. Shane had his first session of KMC with Corgan - we called it KFC. When we left he was sleeping peacefully and breathing well...