Hi all-
I just got back from hospital. Today has been a very rough one for me and more so for baby Chance. Around noon he started having trouble breathing and maintaining his oxygen levels. He was needing 80-100% support. That had to bag him 2 times one for 1 min and again for 2 min. They noticed that his heart rate was resting when they gave slower, longer breaths. So, they switched ventilators to a step down from the one he was one which gave more rapid breaths.
Since switching, his oxygen level is down to 30% which is awesome and he's actually breathing on his own over the ventilator.
We got the brain scan results back and he has a grade 1 bleeding in the brain. A grade 1 is the lowest grade of bleeding but bleeding nonetheless. It's very common with micro preemies like him. The reason is the blood vessels are so weak and immature and when there's trauma, or with him being so sick it causes more blood to go up the brain and makes the blood vessels bust.
They will rescan in 3 days unless he get worse and they'll do it sooner.
For those of u who are praying, please pray specifically:
For the grade 1 bleeding to lessen and stop all together never to return.
For the strengthening of his lungs.
For there to be no permanent, long term damage caused by the bleeding.
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