No Oxygen

It is always exciting in the NICU to get rid of another cord or tube. It signifies the baby is starting to be free to live on his own.

We were thinking Joshua would be off his oxygen for a couple of weeks there and he was making us anxious to be done with it. His alarms would beep the good way if it was on, but if they took him off the oxygen completely he could only go a few hours until he would need the oxygen again. They ended up turning the oxygen part down to just room air and leaving the tiniest amount of flow going, and that worked, until one day he was finally able to be like this:

Look how smug he looks just having his feeding tube in, and the giant binky.

Coming off the oxygen did cause some feeding issues, but the freedom was wonderful.