Well, today was a good and a bad day. After speaking with neonatalogists in Salt Lake, the pediatrician said he needed to send Ben to the University of Utah Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Mountain West Medical Center is not equipped to keep a baby in the nursery for 7-10 days.
Good news-
*Ben's oxygen has been turned down from 1L to .3L to .1L! He is almost on room air.
*Curtis and one of our home teachers were able to give Ben a blessing before the Life Flight Crew came to get him and take him for a ride in the ambulance.
*I was able to hold Ben for the first time just before Life Flight came. We tried to nurse, but weren't given much time.
*I got discharged from the hospital so that I could go to Salt Lake to be with Ben.
*His lab tests continue to show improvements and his chest x-rays remain the same. They are not looking like he is developing pneumonia.
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