First of all, ooops, correction on what I said yesterday. Carson actually is getting to trial CPAP each morning from 12 am to 6 am. I was wrong when I said he wouldn't get a chance again until Friday am. However, the physician is just taking away his rate of 2 and leaving his PEEP plus of 4 for each of these trials. He is getting a little more than CPAP, but they still consider it a trial of CPAP. On Friday, they may let him try 12 am to 8 am depending upon how these next couple of days go. This morning he did great but was breathing a little faster than they would like. They are concerned he won't gain weight because he is breathing so fast. We need to pray he keeps on packing on the weight. If he doesn't gain weight, even if the blood gases are good, they still won't let him wean anymore. No changes today to his ventilator. They are going to just keep letting him trial in the morning and then we will see how his blood gas is on Friday morning. He did do well with his bottle and took 60 ML from his bottle this morning. He also had another echocardiogram to check his heart and for any signs of pulmonary hypertension that he had in the beginning. It was completely normal.

On a very positive note for Elizabeth and Preston, Kellen went 6 hours between eating last night. Hip hip hooray for some much needed sleep. ;)