Done with the CPAP. Another milestone!

Another bit of good news today... At the rounds, the doctors felt that Jac was showing good respiratory progress and was generally looking pretty stable. They decided that he was ready to go off the CPAP mask and go to a nasal cannulae.

The cannulae is a big relief to us -- there is now just a lightweight loop around his face, and he no longer has stuff taped or strapped to his head. The cannulae is also extremely quiet.

Jac gave his mom a little scare shortly after going on the cannulae -- after a crying bout, he temporarily stopped breathing and his oxygen desaturated a bit. (SpO2 reading dropped to 70) One of the nurses came in and gave his chest a little rub to stimulate his breathing, and temporarily raised his oxygen level to quickly get his oxygen level up.

The nurse assured us that this is a normal thing in preemies - especially after they have a crying bout - they forget to breathe and need to be reminded. This is one of the reasons that he has been on boluses of caffeine - as it is a central nervous system stimulant that encourages his system to breathe.


Except for that incident, he seemed perfectly happy and calm getting rid of the CPAP (and the ventilator before that) and when Taj called in to check on Jac later in the evening, his nurse assured us that his breathing had been fine all evening and his SpO2 had been stable all evening.


With his mask gone, and his peripheral vein catheter (which was used for transfusions) also gone, he's looking a lot "lighter" in the isolette, and his bay is looking a lot less crowded, too!