Day 26 - Relief!

Brought you to the doctor in Gleneagles today. Firstly it's because the Dr V from your hospital is on leave for a few weeks! Secondly it was because we wanted some assurance from the doc to say that you are okay. It's regarding your redness overall, how warm you are generally, the wheezing especially when you feed especially at night, your BCG and your belly button which is still weeping. I read online that most of these are quite normal but we just wanted the assurance.

You still look very red even though you are not jaundiced anymore. Your face, you back, overall it's just red. You seem fairest when cool. Like when you are sleeping with aircond. You have also been warm to touch. Somewhat fever like. But everytime we checked your temperature under your armpit, the readings are okay. Doc says your redness is from the my red blood cells still in your body as your body can't make it's own red blood cells yet till when yiu are about 6 weeks old. That's when you will return to a normal colour. Your temperature was 36.8 degree Celsius so it means you are alright.

I recorded the sound of your breathing for the doc. It can be quite heavy and scary as I often wonder if you are able to breathe properly when you feed. It seems as though you have a lot of phlegm blocking your airways.  Doc says your lungs are clear and the stridor is from your immature trachea instead which should also resolve in a few weeks' time. Otherwise, if it does not or gets worse, we'll need to insert a scope in to check! Hope we don't have to take such traumatic measures!

You have no BCG scar yet. Again it will come at week 4-6. Doc gave your belly button a good wipe with 2 pieces if alcohol swap. Says it looks good but it shouldn't weep anymore. If it still weep, she'll have to put some disulfide powder to burn and seal it off. She then explained that it's just a chemical burning which will help seal off any puncture. She also said that the belly button leads to two major blood vessels which is why we have to keep it really clean with sterile wipes to avoid any infection.

While giving you an overall body examination, she noted that you have single palmar crease on your right hand. She said that only 5% of the entire population has that on one hand and only 1% on both hands. When I asked if there's any significance of a single palmar crease,  she says it's just some interesting facts. When we read up more on it, it's actually linked to a lot of syndromes including Down's and Turner's. However if the person does not possess any physical traits upon examination, the it's okay. Guess doc didn't mention this as she didn't wanted to frighten us. But thank God you are okay.

You are 4.1kg, 54cm long with a 37cm head circumference.

Thanking God you are all well.