Saturday AM

Well it's Saturday. He is now 48 hours old and doing well. When the nurse came in this morning to take care of me, she said that during report she had heard that Joshua had been extubated (this means that they took his breathing tube out). Dave and I were a bit surprised, as the doctors said that this probably wouldn't be for awhile. We knew that we would have to see for ourselves of course. So after breakfast we went over to see him and he still had a tube in... not sure what the nurse was talking about... Joshua's nurse came over and told us about his night. Apparently, Joshua decided to extubate himself! We noticed yesterday that he kept grabbing at the tubing. The nurse said at the time that she didn't think he could bother it... well she was wrong! He managed to pull the tube out during the night. The doctor used the CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) - A device that reminds baby to breathe by forcing air in the nose) for awhile to see if he could maintain, but alas, it was too soon and they had to intubate again. So that was our morning! We will update again this afternoon when we can.