Improvements

Tonight will be Noah's three week birthday !!!!!
Many of you may know that Katie and I returned to work this week in efforts to grant Katie a full maternity leave when Noah finally comes home. We are both visiting daily, and it has been easy for me to go up and see the little man on my lunch break. Katie sees Noah at the end of her day.

Monday evening he started to have a few more spells, indicating that he was not quite ready to leave the CPAP machine behind. He will likely need a little more time to allow his lungs to develop (in the grand scheme of things not an issue).

A small set back that Noah had related to his bowel being distended (a result from the milk allergy) created other small problems. The most significant of these issues were that they collected a blood culture from Noah that grew a Gram Positive cocci bacteria. This was treated with antibiotics. Coupled with not being able to eat breast milk for the past two days has created a tough time for Noah, but he is coming through it wonderfully.

Noah had a good day yesterday all things considered and was comfortable while he continues to recover from his first bacterial infection. For good measure, the physicians caring for Noah did a Lumbar puncture to check for meningitis. At this time all indications are that there is no sign of meningitis which is a huge relief.

This afternoon /evening Noah should be started back on breast milk and start to get back into what the staff call a feeder/grower stage. The fatter he can get, the less "interesting" he will become for the NICU staff and the more likely he will get sent home.... in October.

The Prayers, thoughts, support, and shout-outs ect. continue to be appreciated.

Love,
Flynn Family

PS. More pictures to follow in the next day or so. I know some of you have picture withdraw