Day 25

Biggest overnight weight gain of 50g – now over 1.5kg for the first time.

Peter visited for the first time since going to Japan & noticed that Robin’s face looked quite a bit fatter. He’s put on 220grams (or 15%!) in that time. He’s reached the 1.5kg milestone, and smashed it! Gaining 50gms in a day, he now weighs 1,540gms.

Still quite a few de-sats despite the optiflow, but since he seems to pull his nasal canula out – or wants to – this perhaps isn’t surprising. It’s been stuck down a number of times, but he is a smart boy, and has realised that if he moves his head a certain way, it will push the prongs out of his nose :-/ Because of the frequent desats though, he won’t ver free if the optiflow for a while.

Nicki had a good cuddle today, then weighed him. In order to weigh Robin, we have to disconnect everything, including the optiflow. This has to be done in a certain order, with his monitors coming off first, and optiflow the last to be disconnected. We set up a blanket and nappy on the scale, and tare it to zero. Once we’ve taken Robin’s nappy off, and disconnected everything, we place him in the scale and put the new nappy on him. When he is placed back in the isolette, the first thing to connect is his optiflow, then everything else.

Stats

Weight: 1540grams

Air: optiflow 5L/min 21%

Feed: 10.5ml /hour continuous (perfusera)

Nurse: Ari