Nine Weeks Four Days Old

As of last night, Emily weighed 1180 grams (2 lbs, 10 oz.)! Her feeds have also been increased to 15 cc’s every two hours. Emily had a good day most of Wednesday, but later that evening started desatting badly and needed to have her O2 and MAP (mean airway pressure) increased. Today, she was back … [Read more…]

Nine Weeks Old

Emily was nine weeks old yesterday. She now weighs 1110 grams ( 2 lbs, 7 oz)! Today she had a bit of excitement. She seemed to be sliding a little backwards last night; she was having trouble keeping up her O2 saturations, and she had a bad blood gas this morning. This afternoon as the … [Read more…]

Weekend Update

Emily has had a mostly boring week. She wasn’t doing well enough to be weaned off of her oscillator, but hadn’t been doing any worse. She was even down to around 40 % oxygen at one point and had several periods where she would go an hour or so without any desaturation warnings. Yesterday however, … [Read more…]

Emily Eight Weeks Old

I called the hospital this morning to check up on Emily. She now weighs 1030 grams (2 lbs, 4 oz)! She is now 35.5 cm (~15 inches) long, and her head grew another half centimeter this past week.

Petunia the Pig

Emily now weighs 970 grams (2 lbs, 1 oz). She had a pretty good weekend, with excellent blood gases every day which caused the doctors to continue to wean her off of the oscillator. She was extremely active today and seems to have gotten over her respiratory infection. Friday Emily discovered her pig that her … [Read more…]