After two days without any de-sats Cooper has had several clusters of them in the last 24 hours. Because of this his doctor has decided that he is close enough to full term (two days away) to go ahead and do a full work up to see if anything else could be causing the oxygen de-saturations besides prematurity. One of the tests will be a GI and everyone expects it to show he has reflux. All the nurses have said he has reflux from the first week, but because all preemies have some level of reflux they will not test or treat it until they are full term. The treatment for reflux could be as simple as giving him rice cereal in a bottle... They did a cardiac ultrasound today which showed his heart was normal (yay!) and along with the GI test they will also do an EKG and an EEG tomorrow. Say a prayer that nothing major is revealed!
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