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…]
Emily now weighs in at 1190 grams (2 lbs, 11 oz.)! She’s growing out of her size micro clothes. (You can see her almost bursting out of her outfit in one of the pictures.) Not too much exciting has happened the past few days. Her oxygen requirements have pretty much been in the 40-50% range, … [Read more…]