Nothing new really to report. Danielle is still doing great on CPAP with 21-24% oxygen and she is on one of the lowest settings also! Mommy got to Kangaroo today and it was wonderful. They have restarted her feedings today. 1.9cc's every 6 hours, so mommy and daddy keep telling her she needs to eat all of her food!! And today for the first time we heard her cry, it was heartbreaking as it is every time you hear a baby cry. But hearing her cry for the first time as she is only a week old, and Dylan we didn't hear cry for months, it is a great sign as it shows her strength. She just cryed for a second when I was holding her and the nurse was adjusting the cloth on her head that is holding her CPAP. Then we gave her a sponge bath this afternoon and she whimpered a few times when the water would touch her, just like all baby's don't really like their first baths.
A few people have asked about her skin coloring as in the pictures it looks red. We are unable to use a flash in her room and the lack of lighting makes her coloring look different than it is. Keep in mind her skin is still very thin so she will look more pink. Right after birth she was bruised in different areas of her body as a result of the birth experience but most of that is now gone. As you can tell from the one picture I put up a few days ago of her feet crossed, the light was hitting her feet perfect and that is a good sense of her coloring in person.
But she is doing great, she is our little star! We just keep praying like crazy that things continue great as they are~
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