Sunday, August 3, 2008

No more CPAP!!






Our little Danielle is being such a little rock star! We are so proud of her. She is now on just regular Vapotherm oxygen with a nasal canula! This is basically just oxygen with a little more flow, but not much. This is what she had been briefly tried on about 3 weeks ago. She in on 2 liters and only requiring between 26-29% oxygen! This is just so amazing and we are praying like crazy that she continues to do well. This change was made this morning, after they had gone down from 5-4 on her CPAP yesterday she had been only requiring 25% oxygen consistently, so the doc decided that it was time for the canula oxygen. We even took a picture of the monitor in her room with her saturation's because we are just so proud of her. And it is so nice to be able to see her whole cute little face!

Daddy got to Kangaroo again today. It is always just such a great experience to be able to hold your baby and they both loved it. He held her for her feeding which is what they recommend we do whenever possible. She acted a little too comfortable after about 1 1/2 hours of him holding so they decided to put her back in bed. By a little too comfortable I mean that she had a full belly from her food and she was not taking that deep of breaths and requiring a little more oxygen. But after they put her back her oxygen was able to be turned back down as she started taking deeper breaths.

So that is about it, some pretty big changes for our little girl. This is definitely the direction we like to go in, at a slow easy pace. We pray that she does not have to go back on CPAP and that she continues to breathe good, eat all of her food and go potty! We have been so blessed with a precious baby girl and we thank god for our beautiful children each and every day.~

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