Day 2

Well there we were, beating the odds. Wyatt was stable and now the waiting game begins. The Doctor, Dr. K.*, started with him on 100% O2 (oxygen) and a 60 respirations/min. with a max pressure of He was doing pretty good until around 8:15 or so Friday evening. On day one around 10:30 they had kept his O2 support at 40% and changed his vent pressure from 27 to 24 (the lower this number is the better.) They also went ahead and dropped his O2 to 35% around 10:s45pm on Thursday. This was all good news. Now back to Friday, day 2. Dr. K. began working on the pressures, O2, and respiration on the vent. to began the process of seeing what Wyatt's lungs were capable of. Then on Friday night Wyatt hit a bump in the road. They had to put him on 100% O2 and increase his vent pressure to 30, the highest it had been. Dr. K. came to talk to us, about his concerns. The biggest of which was that if they had to increase the pressure much more that Wyatt's lung could burst. Dr. K. said that going to 35 on the pressure may very well do just that. We didn't know what was going to happen. We had contacted an organization called Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS, more on them in a bit) to take photos if Wyatt didn't survive after birth. We had not needed their services on Thursday but now we thought we might. We had Janelle (NILMDTS photographer) come and take a few photos of Wyatt and us. Wyatt recovered again by the Grace of God. This was a very hard night. Kelly and I stayed with Wyatt most of the night, Kelly Girls parents went home for a couple of hours in the wee hours of the morning. My mom and dad slept in their Tahoe. Other family and friends crashed all over the place and some didn't sleep (Tracie P.) at all. I had Kelly go back to the room sometime during the night, as she needed her rest. I stayed with little Wyatt Jack for several more hours. I tried to leave on four different occasions and each time I would go to leave i would give him a kiss and he would open his eyes. As you can see in the darker photo (not sure why my IPhone was making it so dark) I could never leave those eyes. Worth every minute. * they call Doctor, Dr. K. because no one seem to be able to pronounce his name.

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