Hello,
Well Emily did rather well yesterday. She couldn’t get her oxygen lowered over night and didn’t take any bottles but by the time I saw her she really wanted to be held. So I did that. She breast fed well from me taking about 15 to 46(!) cc’s or 1/2 oz. to 1.5 oz from me. Her stats also improved with me there. They decided to try her on a different nasal canula. They can give her more humidity and more flow with this canula. The hope is to eliminate the oxihood. So far it has worked well. She is on a flow rate of 4 liters per minute and an oxygen rate of 70% last I heard. Hopefully they will be able to lower her flow soon. The only bad thing about this canula system is has a tube that is only about 4 feet long so she is really tied down as far as how far she can be from the source. In other words her already small world got smaller! However this new canula is helping her and last I heard she took 1/2 of her 12 midnight and her 4 am feedings by bottle!
That is about all the news I have for now. Sorry for no pictures I didn’t have the camera with me when I sat at the computer and I am multitasking as it is. I will tell Tony to post some pictures tonight.
Jennifer