On the way to 6lbs

Cade is now up to 5lbs 11oz and is taking about 50% of his feedings by bottle. He's getting closer to coming home but no one can give us an exact date yet. They continue to wean him off oxygen. They changed his flow rate from 1 L/min to 0.5 L/min and he seemed to tolerate that well. But, as long as he can bottle 100% of his feedings and pass the car seat test, the doctors won't let his O2 needs stop him from coming home. I'm hoping that he will be weaned from O2 before getting discharged but we'll just have to wait and see. Sean and I were told last night that Cade will go home with an apnea monitor. So, next week, we will take a class on how the monitor works and also an infant CPR class. Kind of scary, huh. But, we'll do what we need to do to keep Cade safe.

The head ultrasound that he had yesterday looked good. His ventricles are shrinking back to normal size and they feel that the shunt settings are correct. The only problem now is that since his head grew with his expanding brain and now his brain is shrinking his head is shrinking too. This is causing the plates in his head to overlap slightly. We are hoping that his brain will grow enough to put the plates back into the correct locations before they permanently fuse together. I guess we will just have to wait and see. Hopefully, as the days go by, we can get a better idea from the neuro team.