May 17, 2002

Today was another great day. Benjamin's breath support was decreased to 10 breaths last night and is now down to 5. His doctor will not go any lower than that. They want to see how he does with this for a few days and then put him on a CPAP machine before trying to remove the tube from his throat.

Ben's isolette (bed) has been in the most critical area of the NICU for the last two weeks. Today he "graduated" to a less serious area of the ward.

Benjamin was given Mom's milk today. He is getting one teaspoon through a feeding tube every three hours for now. If this goes well they will increase it and hopefully remove the IV from his head soon.

All metabolic tests have come back and they are all negative!!