2 Pounds...YAY!

PICC line they took out of Danielle. The white package next to it is a very small infant bandaid, so you can see how very small in comparison the PICC line is.

Our little Danielle is growing, she is up to 2 pounds 1 ounce today! This is very encouraging and means she is getting great nutrition. She is now up to full feedings and today they were able to take out her PICC line! Now she has no IV's or anything, just the CPAP mask on her little face, thats it! The even better part of this is that there are no 'sites' in her for a risk of infection. We are so happy about this because the IV is where her last infection came from. Here is a picture of the PICC line they took out. It is creepy looking, not at all what I had pictured. So to remind you, this PICC line went in at her ankle and went all the way up her leg and the side of her body to her heart. Now this PICC line is as thin as a paper clip and is flimsy like thread. And fluid went thru it, it is so thin it is hard to believe that fluid went thru it. Crazy..... and good thing it is out!!

They are not going to make any changes with her CPAP right now, maybe toward the end of the week. Her hemoglobin levels are border line so instead of transfusing her right now they are giving her iron thru her feeding tube in hopes it will boost up the hemoglobin a little so she doesn't need transfused. They are also not drawing any labs on her for the next day or so to save some of that 'blood' inside her. This is fine with us because like the doctors we don't want too many changes for her at one time and we are just so happy she is on CPAP!

So that is about it. We just pray she keeps breathing good, eating all of her food and going potty, everything else will be just fine!~