Whew!

Over the last 24 hours, Archer's breathing had been up and down. The nurses tried to retape his breathing tube three different times, but this did not seem to curb his behavior. His blood gas tests were not very good this morning either. After looking at a chest x-ray, it was determined that his right lung was collapsed and not expanding correctly.
The first move was to lay Archer on his left side, so his right lung would have more room to expand. Next, the nurses changed his TPN (nutrients) to a different mixture, hoping this would improve his blood gas. After a few more hours, a few more blood gas tests, and another x-ray, the NICU staff was successful at getting his right lung to expand correctly again!

Since this was corrected, Archer has been doing fantastic (according to the night nurse). Archer was given a bath, peed while getting a bath (ha ha), was given new sheets (the camouflage sheets appeared to make his skin blue and purple), and has been very calm.

Now if we could just get him to keep his thumb out of his nose...