Brendan did not get extubated today, the respiratory therapist believed that there was still too much inflammation and swelling from the procedure. If he ran in to trouble, it would make it very difficult to re-intubate.
He was pretty good today, but he had some significant tantrums too.

The bronchoscopy showed that Brendan does have a floppy airway in the left mainstem bronchus, it closes up like a slit when he breathes quickly. The right side is wide open. His left lung is in good condition, but his right lung was the one that was fully collapsed when he was born and still has issues. So when he cries, he loses access to his good lung and that is why his sats drop so quickly.

The doctors have some difficult decisions to make about what to do next, we are waiting for them to deliberate what will be the most effective course of action with the least amount of risk.

Brendan was pretending to sleep until you stopped watching him, then he could work on getting his hands free to pull on his breathing tube. If you looked at him doing it, he would quickly close his eyes.

Keeping his arms wrapped and next to his body without bundling him up so he stays cool

He really loves his rainforest thing with frog sounds.

Trevor had a special fun day today. We ordered him a new outer space play gym extravaganza supreme. He even had to dress up in his outer space jammies in order to try it out the first time.

Super tired baby was worn out from playing in space