Complacent

So Colston has the breathing tube back in.  He decided to get "complacent" as the doctors call it and stop breathing, which apparently is to be expected with pre-term babies and babies who just had a chest tube taken out.  

I was sitting there rubbing his hand and his machine started beeping. We hadn't been back in his room ten minutes and his oxygen saturation went from 89 to 50 in seconds. Justin ran to get his nurse who was with her other patient and grabbed the first nurse he saw in the hallway. 

Suddenly there were five nurses in there, one breathing for him with a mask and the doctor tells us he needs to put the breathing tube back in and we need to leave the room. 

Sitting in the waiting room was the longest ten minutes of my life. The doctor came in and assured us that Colston was fine and that this is a typical thing, they just expected it to happen within hours after the tube was taken out, not the next day. He also said that while we were gone, Colston had been holding his breath for short amounts of time, which put the nurses on alert that this was probably going to happen. 

It also didn't help that Colston hardly had any sustenance in his system. They took out his UAV and UAC lines but didn't start him on Pedialyte for a few hours. He is now able to get breast milk through his feeding tube so hopefully he will start gaining weight and it will give him the nutrients he needs to not get so complacent. They are also going to give him caffeine. Poor guy was probably just too tired. He has had a crazy four days. What he has gone through in his short four days of life would take down a grown man.

We are so thankful at how fast the nurses and the doctor reacted. It's hard seeing how happy and content he was last night and seeing him sedated now. He was just staring at us last night and grabbing our fingers. The nurse had told me earlier I would probably get to hold him today but that's not an option anymore. I was so excited but he is safe now and that's all that matters.