Cranial Ultrascan

Went to see Reyes last evening, he was lying on his tummy. The CPAP was off him since 10:30 am and he seemed to be coping alright.

He has also increased his milk intake to 3.5 ml/hr.

There was a report on cranial ultrascan which came back today. I was not aware of it and no doc has ever explaint it to us before, in fact, it is already the 3rd time he has done this cranial scan, the first time was on the 17 Mar, subsequently was 19 Mar and then yesterday 23 Mar.

The attending nurse had to call the doc to explain the report results to us. We were told that there's a cyst that is 0.2 cm present in the left germinal matrix of his skull. Its a grade 1 intracranial bleed. Doc told us not to worry since its grade 1.

Another finding from the cranial ultrascan is that there are periventricular flares at the side of his skulls as well but they noticed that those have not thicken so there's no worry for that as well.

So we asked if surgery would be necessary if the flares were to develop into cysts but doc said won't recommend that but probably Reyes' brain development might be impeded. Doc mentioned they will be monitoring and doing more scans and keep us updated.

I'm praying real hard that all will be well. But deep down I know my Reyes is a strong baby and all will turn out fine.

I put my hands into the incubator, touched him and told him to be strong and mummy will be back to see him again.