A mother and child reunion......

Zane continues to do well, he has had several stools from his ostomy and his rectum. As silly/gross as it sounds to write about body functions Zane's progress is based upon several of these values each day, urine output, weight gain/loss, stool, blood pressures and glucose levels.  These details help to determine his orders for the day and whether he needs more lasix, increase calories, more fluid , less sugar etc.
Zane's ostomy site is healing well, he only has a small area that is open which is being checked daily by the ostomy nurse as well as the surgeon.

Zane will stay on the vent for several more days, the hope is he will put on weight because the vent will take care of some of the work of his breathing, but if you watch him for a while you notice that he is always breathing over the vent and he has a 90% leak. Unfortunately when he is placed on CPAP (it is a mask that goes over his nose and gives him so oxygen and air flow) his stomach will retain air and it can make it harder for the baby to breathe, the bigger the stomach the less room the lungs have.

Even with all that has been going on, Zane has held his own and tonight his nurse (Shannon)was able to take Zane from his isolate and place him on his mothers' chest. His heart rate never skipped a beat and his oxygen saturation stayed above 88. Samantha never looked happier, she had such a glow about her and Zane had a peaceful expression. He stayed with him mom for two hours, she hated to let him go and I bet he hated to go back to his isolate (I swear I saw him raise his fist up at me)