Danielle's new isolet, it is a lot smaller than the newborn isolet because she is keeping her own body temperature now! No cover except for a recieving blanket on top, the shades on the window are open to get her use to day/night cycling.
Danielle has had a great week. She is weighing in at 3 pounds 11.6 ounces as of last night! She is growing great and really starting to fill out more and more each day we see her. She is eating still just over an ounce of food and loving it! She has been sucking on her pacifier more and more during feedings, which is great because they will try and begin to slowly bottle feed her in a few weeks.
On Tuesday they switched Danielle over to 0.3 liter regular flow nasal canula oxygen. This was a great step as they were beginning to wean Danielle off so she may not even go home on oxygen. 0.5 liter oxygen is what Dylan came home on so for her to be on this at just 7 1/2 weeks old and 3 pounds is amazing! She was only requiring between 21-30% oxygen/air blend which was also, great! On Thursday morning she was moved into a new clean room in a different hallway away from the baby's she was next to that were in isolation. I went up Thursday morning to give her a bath and help move her to her new room. During the bath the nurse decided to have us take the oxygen completely off her face and give her a break because she was doing so well. So the bath went great and I carried her in a warming blanket to her new room after her bath. Once we got her into her new bed to get her dressed we plugged her oximeter and she was sating 96% after being off oxygen completely for 20 minutes!! So we started her feeding and I held her and it was 45 minutes total before we had to put her back on the canula! This was amazing!!!!!
Well this morning when I was at work I got an un-nerving phone call from the nurse. The first time I have received a scary phone call. Danielle had been having quite a few brady spells where she drops her heart rate and she was dropping her O2's pretty low also, like to the single digits.....this is scary considering her limits should be 84-96. She was coming back up on her own but it was taking her some time and a few times she needed a little stimulation. So they decided to put her back on the higher flow nasal canula oxygen at 2 litre's which she just had come off of. This is okay, after all she is still doing great and this is not a step backwards. So it has now been 12 hours since they put her back on Vapotherm and she has been at 21% oxygen, room air, all day long and sating anywhere from 80's to 100%. Even the doctor said this is just a little more flow for her to have a little break and she will be back to regular canula oxygen in 2-7 days. Just precautionary so she doesn't get pooped out, which is fine with us. They did a CBC also to make sure she didn't show any signs of infection, and no sign's of infection at all, numbers were great!
So we are very happy with Danielle, she is getting to be such a big girl! It is hard to believe that she is already 8 weeks old, time is flying by. She has come so far these past 8 weeks, we couldn't be more proud of her. It is hard for me to imagine what it would be like if I was 32 weeks pregnant right now...I try not to think of that very often because it is a little depressing knowing we will never be to that point in a pregnancy. But what we do know is that we have two beautiful miracle babies that we are very lucky to have with us, and they are fighters.....boy are they fighters! Prayers are getting us thru these times when our baby is not home with us. We pray she continues to breathe good, eat all of her food and goes potty and everything else will be just fine. We will be united at home all together as a family soon...very soon!~
On Tuesday they switched Danielle over to 0.3 liter regular flow nasal canula oxygen. This was a great step as they were beginning to wean Danielle off so she may not even go home on oxygen. 0.5 liter oxygen is what Dylan came home on so for her to be on this at just 7 1/2 weeks old and 3 pounds is amazing! She was only requiring between 21-30% oxygen/air blend which was also, great! On Thursday morning she was moved into a new clean room in a different hallway away from the baby's she was next to that were in isolation. I went up Thursday morning to give her a bath and help move her to her new room. During the bath the nurse decided to have us take the oxygen completely off her face and give her a break because she was doing so well. So the bath went great and I carried her in a warming blanket to her new room after her bath. Once we got her into her new bed to get her dressed we plugged her oximeter and she was sating 96% after being off oxygen completely for 20 minutes!! So we started her feeding and I held her and it was 45 minutes total before we had to put her back on the canula! This was amazing!!!!!
Well this morning when I was at work I got an un-nerving phone call from the nurse. The first time I have received a scary phone call. Danielle had been having quite a few brady spells where she drops her heart rate and she was dropping her O2's pretty low also, like to the single digits.....this is scary considering her limits should be 84-96. She was coming back up on her own but it was taking her some time and a few times she needed a little stimulation. So they decided to put her back on the higher flow nasal canula oxygen at 2 litre's which she just had come off of. This is okay, after all she is still doing great and this is not a step backwards. So it has now been 12 hours since they put her back on Vapotherm and she has been at 21% oxygen, room air, all day long and sating anywhere from 80's to 100%. Even the doctor said this is just a little more flow for her to have a little break and she will be back to regular canula oxygen in 2-7 days. Just precautionary so she doesn't get pooped out, which is fine with us. They did a CBC also to make sure she didn't show any signs of infection, and no sign's of infection at all, numbers were great!
So we are very happy with Danielle, she is getting to be such a big girl! It is hard to believe that she is already 8 weeks old, time is flying by. She has come so far these past 8 weeks, we couldn't be more proud of her. It is hard for me to imagine what it would be like if I was 32 weeks pregnant right now...I try not to think of that very often because it is a little depressing knowing we will never be to that point in a pregnancy. But what we do know is that we have two beautiful miracle babies that we are very lucky to have with us, and they are fighters.....boy are they fighters! Prayers are getting us thru these times when our baby is not home with us. We pray she continues to breathe good, eat all of her food and goes potty and everything else will be just fine. We will be united at home all together as a family soon...very soon!~
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