Today Benjamin remains in the NICU and we visit him often. The alarms are quite obnoxious and go off whenever his blood oxygen goes below 90%. It is very alarming at first, but then the nurses explain how it is common for newborns to not regulate their systems very well and babies naturally drop often. By the end of the day, we just find it annoying. There was a chance he could come and stay in our hospital room tonight, but the pediatrician decided he should stay put for one more night. For some reason, they didn't get a blood sample from him at birth, so they aren't sure if he was exposed to the bad bacteria in the meconium or not. Keeping him in the NICU and giving him antibiotics is the way to be sure he will be healthy. However, he yanked his IV out last night and they could not get a new one started and by the looks of his skin, they tried everything! Now his antibiotics have to be injected into his thigh muscle. Poor baby!
Paul slept horribly last night in a combo of a stiff chair and an armchair that supposedly pulls out into a bed. Yeah, the most uncomfortable and uneven bed ever! He ignored my urging to go home and join us in the morning and instead crawled into the hospital bed with me. That actually worked well (he didn't yank my catheter out!) and we both got some shut eye. The nurses promise us that we are first on the list for a bigger room with two beds when someone checks out the next day.
The poor boy after his circumcision. Sugar water really did work to distract him and he didn't seem to feel much.
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