Eating, Breathing, Jumping, Rolling
Amazing what today brings us. Jonna Lil was up on her knees today again. She did something amazing with her body that you have to see in the newest movie upload. She is still getting milk.
But here is the good news, TECHNICALLY she is BREATHING on her own. Now when I say technically, I mean that the respirator is on so low of a setting that it effectively is taking no breaths for her. What it is doing is providing more oxygen than you and I breathe at 21%. She is getting 50% right now. So while she has the muscle strength and coordination to breathe now, she just does not have the lung aveoli to effectively transfer the oxygen in her body.
(The trachea divides into lobar bronchi which then divide repeatedly to form smaller and smaller tubes. The terminal branches are called bronchioles. Bronchioles conduct air to the respiratory epithelium of the sac-like alveoli. Alveoli make up most of the lung tissue and are the major sites for gas exchange. Oxygen moves from the alveolar air to the blood while CO2 moves from the blood into the alveolar air.)
Now that is great and now all we have to do is get those things to grow and we are off the vent!!
Yesterday she could kick and DeSAT, today, she ROLLED and JUMPED without issue. A great day. So now hopefully we wean off the oxygen here in the next week and we will be able to hear the first cry. We will record that for all of you to hear on the web site. Don't worry.
Also, you notice the BIG diapers on her, she has graduated to full preemie diaper instead of the Wee Pee's. Not because she grew, but because she no longer takes a wee pee. She filled up the other diapers!! Lots of pee!
But here is the good news, TECHNICALLY she is BREATHING on her own. Now when I say technically, I mean that the respirator is on so low of a setting that it effectively is taking no breaths for her. What it is doing is providing more oxygen than you and I breathe at 21%. She is getting 50% right now. So while she has the muscle strength and coordination to breathe now, she just does not have the lung aveoli to effectively transfer the oxygen in her body.
(The trachea divides into lobar bronchi which then divide repeatedly to form smaller and smaller tubes. The terminal branches are called bronchioles. Bronchioles conduct air to the respiratory epithelium of the sac-like alveoli. Alveoli make up most of the lung tissue and are the major sites for gas exchange. Oxygen moves from the alveolar air to the blood while CO2 moves from the blood into the alveolar air.)
Now that is great and now all we have to do is get those things to grow and we are off the vent!!
Yesterday she could kick and DeSAT, today, she ROLLED and JUMPED without issue. A great day. So now hopefully we wean off the oxygen here in the next week and we will be able to hear the first cry. We will record that for all of you to hear on the web site. Don't worry.
Also, you notice the BIG diapers on her, she has graduated to full preemie diaper instead of the Wee Pee's. Not because she grew, but because she no longer takes a wee pee. She filled up the other diapers!! Lots of pee!
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