The room at the end

Thomas is in the room at the end!! He was moved on Monday night along with all his other friends from high dependency because they wanted to give the room a deep clean so it's not entirely deserved however, we've been told we're not moving back.

As Thomas is still having episodes of Apneoa, he was put on a special monitor for 12 hours on Monday night to track them. The following morning the results showed he'd had 370 desaturations!! Over 80% were minimal however, some of the others were quite bad so the doctors have decided to put him on nasal cannular at night time to help support his desaturations. We know how unhappy he is with anything up his nose and are also slightly paranoid because excessive oxygen could cause damage to his eyes so are monitoring this closely.

Today Thomas has been quite alert and has breastfed twice really well. His nurse also noticed that his heart rate was quite fast particularly after he was given his daily dose of caffeine - this helps to prevent Bradycardias (saturations and heart rate drops). As Thomas hasn't had one of these for a couple of days, they've decided to stop giving him this. This might also help his Reflux because Caffeine is an irritant which in turn might help his desaturations.

Wednesday is also weighing day and Thomas continues to grow steadily as he now weighs 4lbs 8ozs (2.038kgs). Here's a picture of Thomas and mummy taken today.