Rooming in

We are now at the hospital doing our 48 hour "rooming in". We are practicing the care for James, that we have learned so far. We are about 14 hour in and he is not wearing any leads that measures his oxygen levels, respiratory rate, pulse or blood pressure. We have weighed him this morning, we checked his oxygen level, we give him medicines 5  times a day and he has eight different medicines he takes at different times. We also have a strict feeding schedule, every three hours he gets 60 ml breast milk with added 30 kcal per 30 ml. The nurses do come in and check on him from time to time. We were nervous at first, but now it feels better to look at him to see how he is doing instead of relying on the monitors. We both had to change his feeding tube before we started our rooming in. It was not the easiest task, but we both could get it through. His weight was 3810 grams today and he is doing good. We also took him for a walk in the hallway in his stroller this afternoon. Now it is time to get some sleep to finish this trial.


James Johan (5 weeks and 3 days old)



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