Have A Little Faith

It was another rough day for our little guy.  After several meltdowns they decided to move Trey back into his own private room 'with a view'.  Shortly after being moved he decided to stop breathing from his tube completely, so seven staff members helped him manually breathe until they were able to reintubate him.  Since then he has steadily improved and the ventillator settings are gradually being turned back.  Hopefully this trend will continue through the late evening and early morning hours.  Because the ventillator settings have been turned up so high, if the consistent improvements do not continue he may have to be reintroduced to the oscillator.  On a more positive note, his steroid treatments did start up again today.  The ventillator is essential for Trey's respiratory health right now, but the machine is damaging his lungs.  The hope is that by continuing the steroid treatments he will be extubated faster and finally be free from a breathing tube, but right now whatever respiratory infection he has is requiring that he continue to have help from breathing aids to get him through the illness.

Stella is working on learning how to eat and is doing a marvelous job!  She had two bottle feedings today and completed half of her feeding through the bottle both times.  This is tough work for a 34 week baby so yeah Stella!

Mom and Dad are obviously disappointed in the setbacks Trey is experiencing.  It is very difficult not being able to make things better for him.  The doctors and nurses are doing everything they can to keep him comfortable though, and with each passing day we learn more and more that time spent in the NICU can't be planned or arranged - we will be here as long as it takes for both babies to heal and grow.  Not knowing when we will return home is hard, but we know that sweet sweet day will eventually come.