Two Days in a Row
Ok... back to back posts... I'm back in the swing of things!
Emma has been doing well today. She continues to grow (1055 grams! She only needs to gain ~ 10 more grams until she has gained a pound!). She also continues to need less and less added heat via her isolet. Good job Emma!
However, it has not been all fun and games. Well, at least not for us. It seems that Emma has started a new game. Emma has a monitor that measures the saturation of oxygen in Emma's blood. It works well... except when one of her other monitors is not working or if she is moving too much. What usually happens when her oxygen saturation level gets too low (or destats) is that it goes back into the normal range (on it's own) in a relatively short period of time. However, it still beeps for all to hear. Well, Emma's new game is that whenever her nurse, Liz, or I leave the bedside, she destats until we come over and then she returns to normal levels. This pnenomenon occurs even if Emma is sleeping or her isolet is covered. We're not sure what is going on, but Emma's nurse tonight decided to do all her paperwork at Emma's station... just to humor her. I hope she grows out of this before she goes home.
Not many pictures tonight, but they are good. Enjoy!
Emma has been doing well today. She continues to grow (1055 grams! She only needs to gain ~ 10 more grams until she has gained a pound!). She also continues to need less and less added heat via her isolet. Good job Emma!
However, it has not been all fun and games. Well, at least not for us. It seems that Emma has started a new game. Emma has a monitor that measures the saturation of oxygen in Emma's blood. It works well... except when one of her other monitors is not working or if she is moving too much. What usually happens when her oxygen saturation level gets too low (or destats) is that it goes back into the normal range (on it's own) in a relatively short period of time. However, it still beeps for all to hear. Well, Emma's new game is that whenever her nurse, Liz, or I leave the bedside, she destats until we come over and then she returns to normal levels. This pnenomenon occurs even if Emma is sleeping or her isolet is covered. We're not sure what is going on, but Emma's nurse tonight decided to do all her paperwork at Emma's station... just to humor her. I hope she grows out of this before she goes home.
Not many pictures tonight, but they are good. Enjoy!
posted by Chadwick at 10:56 PM
1 Comments:
Wow. She is getting big! She looks so healthy in the more recent pictures, you can really see her miraculous progress. In some of the last batch of pictures, she's looking a little more like her dad, too!
She's beautiful, you guys, I'm so thrilled that she is doing so wonderfully. You're in an awful lot of peoples' thoughts and prayers.
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