Napping with Dad

We saw the little guy today and Rafael got to hold him yet again. They hung out for a little under an hour.  Max passed out pretty quickly on his dad's chest and spent the better part of it just relaxing. Like clockwork, he started getting restless when half of his feeding was done and he went back into his little bubble bed. He's doing much better when he gets moved, which means that it's less stressful for him to be moved around like that. 

His breathing is still "troublesome" in that he isn't doing on his own anymore and he's back to A/C (instead of PSV) so that means that he's doing less work. His O2 levels are creeping lower in general, though, it's just exhausting him to breathe so much on his own. His goal - well, our hopeful goal, really - is that he will just kind of "click" into breathing on his own when he gets bigger and gets more energy overall.   He's still amazing and cuddly and his ID bracelet on his ankle is starting to look a bit snug, meaning that he's growing wonderfully. So wonderfully, that he is now at 1370g (3lbs and a bit). Everything but the breathing "thing" is what they want to be seeing in a baby in his situation.