Not Yet

It's Sunday morning and there isn't really a departure time near in site. It's easy to dwell on the inconviences and lonliness in the midst of chaos; after all practically living in a hospital is far from hospitable. But the Lord reminded me: YOUR BABY IS ALIVE, rejoice! I've sadly watched two families have to start thinking about funural arrangements instead thinking about car seats, baby clothes and cribs. Their babies looked to have had very similar problems to Jamin, don't know for sure of course due to patient confidentiality. I need to be spending my thoughts praising Him not nagging Him!

Jamin still needs level 2 care, the remaining hurdles are to calm down his breathing rate, get the junk out of his lung and chest, and be strong enough to fully feed himself. Breaths per minute are down to *only* double what they need to be and he can feed himself about 40% of what he needs. By the way level 2 care means that he needs monitoring and assitance for basic functions, pretty much what most of the babies in the NICU are, *just* sick. Level 3, which he was at for 8 days, is critical, pretty much cannot preform any basic funcions without constant assistance. Level 1 is when baby is stable and is monitored to make sure he/she can endure basic tasks of everyday life, such as ride in a car seat. Baby needs to be totally self sufficient with basic functions for approx. 48 hours before discharge.

While it is a bummer that he is not well enough to thrive at home, the fact that we will eventually take him home is the biggest blessing we could ask for! God is good, no matter what the outcome could have been with this situation, but oh how wonderful it is that he spared our precious little Jamin!