Good day today....down on oxygen
We went down pretty well on oxygen today. Our first positive step in 4 days. Very good. That means she is improving quite nicely and MAY not go back on the ventilator. (PLEASE!) AND she is now regulating her body temperature a little bit better than before, so she may be full cribbing sooner than expected. That means in a full crib, no isolette. But that probably won't happen until she can handle full feeds, and that probably won't happen for 2-3 more weeks and that is just to TRY it. Wow, see how amazing all this is.
Mommy held her for a long time today. More skin on skin marsupial style. She just laid there sleeping as peacefully as you could imagine.
She really likes Daddy's weird voices too! You have to check out the new movie of her SMILING. Yes, smiling.
Yes, I know, she really does not understand the concept of smiling, BUT, I swear she was smiling. Check the video out....it really is something. You will also see her eyes dart about trying to look at every sound. When an alarm goes off somewhere in the room, she looks. When Daddy speaks she looks, mommy speaks she looks, then she looks everywhere...it is really strange to see the eyes do all the moving, thinking that she should be looking at one thing. However, preemies don't have all that coordinated yet, in fact, some full term newborns have a coordination problem. It is completely normal. But still weird looking I know...just look at that smile.
It happens more than once to make it a coincidence. She smiles then she loses coordination, get confused, and then works the mouth. It is so cute!!!
She is starting to have fun when we have her holding her. This is really a great thing now. All we need is her to grow and gain weight.
Everyone, we are not out of the woods yet, but it is really getting encouraging to see the emotions on her face. It is getting very nice. Thank you all for one wonderful day.
Mommy held her for a long time today. More skin on skin marsupial style. She just laid there sleeping as peacefully as you could imagine.
She really likes Daddy's weird voices too! You have to check out the new movie of her SMILING. Yes, smiling.
Yes, I know, she really does not understand the concept of smiling, BUT, I swear she was smiling. Check the video out....it really is something. You will also see her eyes dart about trying to look at every sound. When an alarm goes off somewhere in the room, she looks. When Daddy speaks she looks, mommy speaks she looks, then she looks everywhere...it is really strange to see the eyes do all the moving, thinking that she should be looking at one thing. However, preemies don't have all that coordinated yet, in fact, some full term newborns have a coordination problem. It is completely normal. But still weird looking I know...just look at that smile.
It happens more than once to make it a coincidence. She smiles then she loses coordination, get confused, and then works the mouth. It is so cute!!!
She is starting to have fun when we have her holding her. This is really a great thing now. All we need is her to grow and gain weight.
Everyone, we are not out of the woods yet, but it is really getting encouraging to see the emotions on her face. It is getting very nice. Thank you all for one wonderful day.
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