The nurse from the apnea program called me yesterday after talking with the doctor. The doctor is not overly concerned with the lack of improvement regarding the number of alarms Finn is having and he thinks Finn will eventually just out grow whatever is making him set the alarms off. This is what we were told to begin with, so I'm happy to hear he agrees. The nurse was just being cautious and I'd rather her question something and it be fine than not question it and something be wrong! So, now Finn has to just stop setting the monitor off. On a good note, it has only gone off twice since they reset the low threshold of the heart rate to 70 bps on Tuesday! That is really good. Keep it up little man.
On other good news, the home health nurse came today and our little guy now weighs 7 pounds 11.5 ounces! This is good news because #1. he is gaining weight (duh!), but also #2. because he is gaining exactly how much he should be! He should gain 1 ounce a day and last Thursday he weighed 7 pounds 4.5 ounces. I was a little concerned because he is only eating once during the night (he was eating two or three times) and often he is stretching it out to 4 hours between feeding during the day, too. But worry not, momma! For now, all is good. We are a stone's throw away from 8 pounds!
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