3 Months Old!!

Our sweet baby boy is 3 months old today! What a journey it has been, and there is so much more to come. We've had some ups and downs since my last post (as usual). Deklyn had a major lung collapse, which later made sense as to why he had been so irritable lately. They had to put Deklyn back on the jet ventilator (this is the ventilator he was one when he was born, a very gentle way of ventilating) which they hoped would open his lung back up. I was pretty upset, although I knew this step backwards was going to help him no one likes to feel like your moving backwards rather than forwards. He also hated the jet when he was on it before so I was not looking forward to seeing him so upset, but they have him on medication to help keep him calm and settled.The change seemed to help significantly but after awhile again it collapsed. We are not sure why, there could be many reasons but tomorrow he will have been on the jet for a week, they are going to do some x-rays and tests and if all looks good he should be going back onto his previous mode of ventilation.

On an exciting note, Deklyn has finally been able to be on his tummy! He absolutely loves it! He gets very upset when moved back onto his back. He's been breathing alot lately which is an awesome sign that things are moving in the right direction! We will also be making the move to PICU sometime soon. I am looking forward to it for many different reason. We will have our own room so noise won't be much of an issue anymore and it will give us so much more privacy and space! They also have much more experience with babies like Deklyn there. I'm really going to miss the nurses in NICU but I know this is going to be a good move for us. They also say Deklyn will be able to get a new tube (yes again haha) in PICU that should help with his issues of his tubes getting to small for him, and when he has that we can start changing his ventilator settings and watch him breath more on his own and eventually move to new forms of ventilating that don't involve a tube down his throat!

We had an article in the Winnipeg Sun that can be read here and it was also in the Red River Valley Echo (our home town paper) they are exactly the same article but here is a link to that one as well.

Prayer requests for us right now:

Deklyn's lung will strengthen and stop collapsing

We will be able to move to PICU soon and that it will be a great change for us

Weening down Deklyn's medications for pain will go smoothly

and Continuation of bone growth

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!