Bad Day

So this post is a little late. It was a crazy week last week. In the last post I talked about how Wyatt was vomiting green bile looking stuff. They were concerned that maybe his bowel was blocked again, the other possibility was that his intestine was swollen and blocking itself.  The doctors wanted to do another contrast study by injecting this liquid that will show up on x-ray into his intestine back to his stomach and get a picture to see if there was anything stopping the flow.

Wyatt was not happy to be down there. He was screaming as soon as they took him out of his isolete. I actually stood at the head of the table right above Wyatt's head while he held on to each of my index fingers with each of his hands. Thats one of the best ways he soothes himself. The radiologist put a catheter into the opening of his intestine and started injecting the contrast.  With in a few seconds seconds Wyatt stopped crying.  His face was covered but I could tell he was still upset. His body was all tense. I told them that something was wrong and I uncovered his face. His eyes were squeezed shut, and i repeated again that something was wrong and that was when everything started happening. His heart rate started falling and his breathing, everything.  He started turning blue and thats when I stepped back away from the table. The nurses and doctors all rushed in to help him.

He had enough backed up in his intestines that when they injected the contrast it pushed everything back up towards the his stomach and when it hit his stomach he threw up. Because he was crying he would have aspirated all his vomit. Instinctively his air way spasmed shut so nothing would get down into his lungs, but that also meant he couldn't breathe.  They started suction and they had to tear off the things in his nose giving him oxygen so they could "bag him". Heidi and I just stood back hugging and crying thinking we were watching him die.  It was honestly the scariest thing I have ever experienced in my life.

They got him cleaned out but he kept vomiting even once we got him stable and back up to the NICU. Again, luckily he did aspirate anything and poor little guy started to recover from there and has been getting better everyday.

He was breathing so well we were able to take away any breathing support.  Nothing stuck to his face, we get to see how cute this little guy is. 

We have started him on oral feedings for the first time. They made a binky trainer. It is a preemie binky with a small feeding tube attached to it. As he sucks we give him a little bit of milk from it. Its been really fun to see how much he likes eating. He gets so calm and he is so mellow after words. Its so great. They are evetually going to put a tube back in his nose that goes down to his stomach so they can control his feedings a little, but we will still be able to feed him with the binky trainer. 

We still have a long road though. Little guy is only about 3 lbs 4 oz still. So hes still pretty little. He love him so much and with less tube and everything on him, its way easier to hold him and take care of him.  So we try to hold him most of the day :).