Car seat challenge and going home this week

Morgan is getting so close to going home. It looks like it will be sometime this week. He passed his car seat challenge today. He had to sit in his car seat for an hour and a half without dropping his sats and he did well. He was getting a little fussy with 15 minutes to go but luckily I was able to be on pacifier duty and that calmed him. Morgan will be going home on oxygen (they did a room air challenge last week and he did alright but he definitely does better with the oxygen). It's funny because he is on so little...only 21% which is room air so he isn't actually getting any extra oxygen at .05 liters which is nothing really but it seems to make a difference with him. So he'll have the oxygen and an apnea monitor. He doesn't have apnea episodes but I guess at that hospital if you go home on oxygen you automatically go home on a monitor. The monitor will be a pain but it will give me reassurance when he first comes home. I will also have a spot check monitor to check his oxygenation settings. I will probably have to do this a couple of times a day. He will be on two medications (which isn't much for a 24 weeker), flovent which is an inhaled steroid for his lungs and a diuretic to rid extra fluid in his lungs. Both will be given twice a day. Right now he is on thickened feeds so he can coordinate the suck/swallow/breathe combination which he is doing much better with. Tomorrow they are going to do another swallow study to see if he can be reduced down from the honey thick which is the thickest they can make the formula to nectar thick which is in between honey and regular. I really hope the study shows he isn't aspirating the nectar thick anymore because he gets so worn out trying to suck the honey thick through the nipple. Last week they also did an ultrasound of his scrotum and didn't see any intestine so they think it is just a hydroseal (trapped extra fluid) for now, it will have to be monitored to make sure the hernia doesn't reopen. Overall Morgan is doing awesome and I am so excited for him to come home. It has been a very long journey!