Around 2:40 p.m. today, Miss Emma was taken off of the ventilator. Yea!! She is on cypap. It is like the c-pap but it has a rate with it. That means it gives her so many breathes a minute. She is doing well so far. She is at 55% oxygen with a rate of 6. She does not like that thing in her nose. When she cries now you can hear her. She is very hoarse though from having the tube in her throat for so long. She likes having her bottom patted. She still has the gown, mask and glove on and they said she probably will have that until she is released. That kind of stinks but what do you do. We will know more in the next week as to whether she stays off of the ventilator. We need to keep praying for those little lungs.
Olivia was taken off of feeds today. There is a small amount of blood in her stools. She has been puking for about a week now. It seems to have started when they ran out of my breast milk and put her on formula. She was on formula for a day and a half and then she was back to my milk. It seems like she has an illius - her intestines might be irritated and inflamed. They did an x-ray and it showed a lot of gas. They did some blood work and so far it shows no infection. They stopped her feeds and started an i.v. with sugar water for now. They will do another x-ray and blood work in the morning. Based on that, they will either restart her feeds or keep her off and start TPN. Please pray that it is nothing and that her body will rest overnight and heal so she can start eating again.
Just another dip in the roller coaster. This time we have two roller coasters going and one is going up and the other is going down.
Thanks for the prayers!!!!
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