Yes, Little Miss Emily has finally made it to the three pound mark (1360 grams)! She is currently being treated for yet another respiratory infection. The doctors made some slight adjustments in her ventilator settings today, reducing the number of breaths to 40 per minute, and increasing her pressures. The goal is to try to … [Read more…]
Emily now weighs 1320 grams (2 lbs, 15 oz)! She has almost tripled her birth weight! The settings on her ventilator were slightly increased today and she is now getting 50 breaths per minute from the machine, but her lungs are apparently sounding better. One of her primaries was on tonight and said that Emily’s … [Read more…]
. . . of the oscillator! She was feeling much better today. This evening, Jennifer was singing and playing with Emily. Emily started smiling a lot. She was also extremely active and was constantly in motion until we left to come home. We’ve been told that the doctors have decided that if she self-extubates once … [Read more…]
Greetings, We just got the update from last night. I guess Emily got tired of being on the vent and pulled her tube out twice! The doctor said that her saturation (oxygen saturation in her blood) didn’t go down that much though, and she was debating on just puting her on the C-pap when she … [Read more…]
Emily is now ten weeks old. She had an uneventful day, but her nurse said she was bad last night. Apparently she was working on a pooh when she got fed. Long story short – there was a big mess culminating in yet another reintubation. Jennifer was finally able to come back into the nursery … [Read more…]