Today was about trying to get Thomas of the ventilator.

He tolerated weaning the vent very well and got down to a respiration rate (number of breaths per minute) of 20 provided by the machine.

The doctors were planning to extubate him once he was slightly less sedated however Thomas had other ideas! He took it upon himself to remove his breathing tube (strong boy!) which then prompted the doctors to give him a go on the step down of ventilation, CPAP (this is a continual pressured flow of air rather than the ventilator which is given set pressures per breath).

Thomas appeared to tolerate this really well, however 4 hours later it seemed that his energy reserves were almost all used up and he started struggling, working too hard...

BABY GARNER HAS A NAME!

Introducing Thomas Edward Garner

Today has been about getting to know Thomas and seeing how he does. He has been stable and his ventilator settings changed throughout the day to see what he tolerates.

It is thought he has been making good progress but is just absolutely waiting to see how he does.

Big brother Henry was brought to meet Thomas this afternoon.  Henry was thrilled with the buttons and lights and incubator doors and had a glance at his baby brother.

ITS A BOY!!!

Happy Birthday Baby Garner!

Our baby boy made his very dramatic entrance into the world at 7.42am this morning, weighing 7lb11oz.

Baby was all ready to arrive ‘naturally’ until a last minute change of position caused him to have huge deceleration of his heart rate which he wasn’t able to recover, so a very quick decision was made to deliver him by emergency c section.

He surprised the doctors and came out pink and breathing for himself, and even managed a little cry with apgar scores of 7 then 9. After a quick check over, stabilisation and a cuddle from Daddy, he was rushed off to NICU for assessment.

Once in NICU, Baby was able to breathe for himself and a cardiologist was called to check him over as it was not expected that he would be able to breathe alone...