16/01/2006
Bailey had a quiet weekend. Everything was pretty much unchanged today. His umbilical cord stump came away on Sunday morning, so he's a big boy now! Fifteen days old now too and every day that passes makes it a little easier to look to the future. There is talk that the ICU staff might try to wean him off his ventilator towards the end of next week in an attempt to minimize the effects of Chronic Lung Disease. Bailey will have some form of CLD, all babies as small as he is get it if they are ventilated for any length of time, and Bailey has been ventilated since birth. On the plus side, we have been told that most babies grow out of CLD as toddlers and nearly all are clear by the time they go to school. Some though, and these are the minority, are affected by it for longer.
Bailey now has a drip into his head, it's not pretty, but drip sites in the head tend to last longer than those in arms and feet, so if it means that he can keep this one in for a week or so it will give his arms and feet a good chance to recover.
He is still fighting and still a character.
