Dr. Barrett had promised that if Jennifer did not do well in the 'cardiac' seat, she would be removed from it.  Dr. Barrett was nowhere to be found last night when Jennifer was starting to have problems in that 'cardiac' seat.  I held Jennifer while her nurse changed her bed. The monitor showed several low hearts, and then suddenly Jennifer started to turn blue and her eyes began to roll backwards into her head.  The nurse started to bag her immediately, but to no avail.  The nurse then called for Dr. Willis to come over.  Dr. Willis and the nurse immediately rushed Jennifer to the treatment room where Jennifer was revived.  When Jennifer was returned to her isolette, I asked Dr. Willis what the problem was.  Dr. Willis said - that the problem was that Jennifer had a large amount of mucus at the back of her throat which prevented her from getting air.  Dr. Willis also said that the mucus probably accumulated because the size of the suction tubes used by the nurses was not big enough to get it all out.  Jennifer was also given a Mucomyst treatment to help get the large amount of mucus out.  No one seems to think that perhaps Jennifer's large amounts of mucus might be from Asthma.

When Jennifer was returned from the treatment room, she was to be placed back into the 'cardiac' seat.  The nurse mentioned to the doctors that Jennifer does much better on her stomach, so with the doctors permission, Jennifer was placed back into her isolette on her stomach.  She seemed to do so much better in that position.  I called work to say that I'd miss my USO meeting, and that I would not be in to work.  I called Jo to let her know what had happened, and that I would come and pick her up.  I called mom to let her know what had happened.  I went and picked up Jo, and we came back to Metro.  When the nurse changed Jennifer's diaper, she had a bowel movement which to me was a good sign that the amount of formula that they were able to get into her was digesting.

I mentioned to the nurse that Jennifer's Umbilical cord had as yet not detached - I thought that it should have dried up and fallen off by now (7 weeks).  The nurse did not know why it was still attached - she tried to tug on it, but it was still firmly attached.  Mr. Strom, the social worker from 4B, came by to talk to us.  We talked a bit about Jennifer's problems, and my feelings about the apparent lack of concern for the feeling of parents, and the apparent lack of the use of common sense in certain situations.  I also related to him what had happened with Jennifer's feeding last night, and the turning blue incident of this morning.  I also let him know that as of now (11:30 AM), no one has come over to us to explain what had happened with Jennifer's feeding, why she turned blue, or what the future plans for Jennifer's feeding are because of what has happened last night and this morning - even though Dr. King, Dr. Barrett, and Dr. Kwong (Dept Head) are all here in the NICU, none of them has even a minute to spare to come and talk to us about all that has happened.

Mr. Strom said that he would talk to Dr. Rubin about it to see if we can discuss the matter. Mr. Strom had to go to a meeting, but said that he would be back after lunch.  Jo and I went to lunch at Metro.  When we came back from lunch, Jennifer had another low heart, but it was not serious.  The nurse clapped and suctioned her for a lot of mucus, Mr. Strom came back, and we talked some more, but we had to leave at 1:20 PM for an appointment with Dr. Kucharski.

Dr. Kucharski talked to us about Jennifer, and future babies.  He said that he can not get involved with Jennifer's case because he only delivered her, and he was not the pediatrician. He suggested that the next baby we have be followed by a risk doctor and not him. He says that at this point Jo is ok.  Jo gave Dr. Kucharski's nurse our medical forms.  We did some grocery shopping.  We called the NICU about Jennifer - she is ok, about the same as before.  Jo and I had gotten to the point that we were making plans to stay with Jennifer 24 hours a day in shifts.  It seemed that she was having too many little accidents, and that she needed to be watched more closely.  We went back to see Jennifer in the evening.  She had been on her stomach all day, and was doing much better.  She still had a lot of mucus. RR - 80-90 / HR - 120 / Wt - 3100.  We left at about 7:30 PM.  We dropped mom off at home - she had come with us.