New Years Surprise

Max had a little surprise for me when I got back to Bismarck this afternoon- he has been extubated! No more ventilator!!  He is now on CPAP, but both his nurses today said they think he will be on a nasal cannula tomorrow.
He is now off all his medicines besides his antibiotics. No more morphine for sedation or dopamine for blood pressure.
He also got his first bath today, after 9 days! He looks so much better now that he isn't a little greaseball. I also got to see him with his eyes wide open for the first time tonight. He is a pretty handsome little guy!
They weighed him after his bath too and he has lost quite a bit of weight. He went from 8 lb 6.6 oz to 7 lb 7 oz. He has just got started on lipids so that should help him gain a little of the weight back. He is still just getting 5 ml of breastmilk through his NG feeding tube, but his nurse said as soon as the morphine is out of his system and his intestines start being a little more active they will increase his feedings.