*there's the night before Christmas

Will's gift from the hospital was a new NICU room today. No special reason - his pod had just a few babies so they moved them to be able to clean it while it was empty. The new room looks almost exactly the same but is a little bigger.

The nice thing is that our neighbor remained the same. When another baby in the pod does something that causes an alarm to sound, a little window with their information pops up on the monitors of the other babies. This is so a nurse will be alerted even if they are in another patient's room. Our nurse told us that when Will has a spell and his info pops up on our neighbor's monitor, the parents cheer for him. We've never met them but we have figured out that they have newborn twins and only one is in the NICU. I don't know what that is like, but they must be so tired! They are having sleepless nights at home with one, while visiting a sick baby every day, AND bothering to cheer on our little boy's heart rate and oxygen saturation! Very nice neighbors.

Will has had a couple of days with more apnea spells than usual. Due to this the attending doctor decided to try having the lid of his isolette up for awhile. Since Will is dressed most of the time now, the thought is that he might be too warm which could be leading to more spells. We like this because we can reach him and see him so much better! They also checked to see if he has an infection which explains the splint on his arm in the picture below. He is getting antibiotics because his blood culture was positive for infection, but for a kind that is consistent with contamination. The possibility of infection has been looked at several times before and isn't concerning to us, we just haven't had pictures of the splint before.

Getting back in bed after Kangaroo Care and getting weighed.

4 lbs, 6 oz!

Picture of the day: Will with his big boy pacifier!

~Jody