[Bjarki’s tummy\/intestines starting having trouble last night. The nurse detected some blood in his stool and so they took an x-ray of his tummy. They found it to be a little enlarged so milk feeds were stopped as of midnight. The nurse also found a lot of air in his tummy, probably due to the air being pushed in by the CPAP system. When kids start having trouble with their digestion, CPAP air apparently starts getting stuck in the tummy. I was told that the tummy had hardened overnight and the nurse said she could feel some of the intestines. <\/p>\n
To remedy the situation, they put in an active suction on his tummy to relieve it of air. They also toyed with putting him on a ventilator to stop blowing air down to his tummy, but decided, at least for the time being to remove the CPAP and replace it with a nasal cannula<\/a>. This also blows oxygen up his nose, but not under pressure. It’s basically the next step up from the CPAP, and would have been the next step anyway had everything progressed without trouble – just not this soon.<\/p>\n The nurse told me this morning that the cannula is making Bjarki work a lot harder to breathe, but that he’s so far holding steady. She also felt the tummy was getting softer, and that it circumference had returned to what it was on Wednesday. We’ll see how things go today, it’s still only early morning.<\/i>]<\/p>\n Meltingarkerfi\u00f0 var \u00ed uppn\u00e1mi hj\u00e1 Bjarka \u00ed n\u00f3tt og maginn st\u00edfna\u00f0i a\u00f0eins upp. Til a\u00f0 minnka loftmagni\u00f0 \u00ed maganum var sett upp sogr\u00f6r en \u00ed sta\u00f0inn fyrir a\u00f0 setja drenginn aftur \u00ed \u00f6ndunarv\u00e9l (skref aftur \u00e1 bak) \u00fe\u00e1 var nefp\u00fasti\u00f0 fjarl\u00e6gt og nefr\u00f6r sett upp \u00ed sta\u00f0inn (eins og gamalmenni me\u00f0 \u00f3n\u00fdt lungu f\u00e1). \u00dear me\u00f0 er loftinu ekki \u00fdtt ni\u00f0ur undir \u00fer\u00fdstingi (og lungunum ekki haldi\u00f0 opnum fyrir hann) heldur \u00fearf hann a\u00f0 anda alveg sj\u00e1lfur.<\/p>\n Hj\u00fakkan sag\u00f0i m\u00e9r \u00e1\u00f0an a\u00f0 hann er a\u00f0 erfi\u00f0a heldur miki\u00f0 vi\u00f0 a\u00f0 anda, en a\u00f0 \u00feetta gangi hj\u00e1 honum enn sem komi\u00f0 er. H\u00fan sag\u00f0i a\u00f0 \u00feetta v\u00e6ri mj\u00f6g svipa\u00f0 og \u00feegar hann var tekinn af \u00f6ndunarv\u00e9linni \u00ed anna\u00f0 sinn og settur \u00e1 nefp\u00fasti\u00f0. \u00de\u00e1 erfi\u00f0a\u00f0i hann l\u00edka miki\u00f0. Maginn er l\u00edka farinn a\u00f0 m\u00fdkjast og er aftur kominn ni\u00f0ur \u00ed umm\u00e1li\u00f0 fr\u00e1 s\u00ed\u00f0asta mi\u00f0vikudegi. \u00deannig a\u00f0 vi\u00f0 sj\u00e1um hva\u00f0 setur. \u00deeir voru amk gla\u00f0ir me\u00f0 a\u00f0 hafa sett s\u00fdklalyfin \u00ed gang snemma, \u00fea\u00f0 hefur vonandi hj\u00e1lpa\u00f0 eitthva\u00f0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Bjarki’s tummy\/intestines starting having trouble last night. The nurse detected some blood in his stool and so they took an x-ray of his tummy. They found it to be a little enlarged so milk feeds were stopped as of midnight. The nurse also found a lot of air in his tummy, probably due to theRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}