To cut or not to cut?

Chelsea after eating carbs. She won't be happy with me posting this.

MOOSE

Owen had a much better day today. The medical team says that it is more than likely from the blood transfusion. He did well with more time breast feeding today and probably drinking about 2-3oz of breast milk at each feed. His saturations were in the high 70s to low 80s all day so that was good. He continues to be on high flow O2 with the Nitric oxide. When we arrived to the hospital this morning our nurse had told us that the cardiac surgeons Nurse Practitioner was coming to talk to us. The surgeon had seen Owen in the early morning and thought it might be best to place the cardiac shunt. This is considered 'open heart surgery' and will not be the only one if they do it. But it may be the only one for a few months. We were informed that he is on the surgery schedule for first thing Monday morning at 0630. The procedure was gone over with us, and the consent was signed. There will be a discussion tomorrow with the cardiologist about maybe holding off on surgery a wait a few more days to see if Owen's pulmonary vascular resistance decreases. We will know for sure tomorrow and this is the medical world so things can change and surgeries can be pushed back so nothing is set in stone. I will keep you posted with tomorrows blog. Other than that we had a lot of cuddling with the "Moose" today and can't wait for more tomorrow. Chels has been able to take advantage of their breastfeeding mom trays, but we went out for some comfort junk food today. We had cookies and cream ice cream and a macaroon in Gramps's honor. Chelsea finished this sweet snack with a carb coma nap on the table!

-Chris