1 Month Birthday!!

Our little pumpkin is 1 month old!! I can't believe that 4 weeks have passed already. We dropped off some chocolates to the nurses yesterday to sort of mark the occasion and to thank them for all of their hard work. Then we had a little mini-celebration incubator-side with Anna for her birthday. I just can't wait to have her birthdays here at home, celebrating with family and cake and her little friends.

We were so shocked to see her yesterday when we came in because they extubated her on the afternoon shift. This means that she has to work and breathe on her own. I really hope she can do it because once she is on c-pap exclusively, she can be transferred to a Level II unit within 3 weeks or so. I just want her closer to home, it would mean so much to us. But of course, not before she's well cooked and ready :)

She was 1102 grams yesterday but since they removed her tube she has dropped down a bit to 1094 grams. This could be because the tubes are gone and it could be because she has to work harder so she is burning more energy. She seemed to tolerate the si-pap pretty well (that's one step down from c-pap and it's one step up from being intubated) and she apparently only had about 2 spells last night (where her heart rate dips). On a normal day she has about 5-6 spells. These of course are expected still at this point only because she is still so young and doesn't remember to breathe fully all the time.

She is also up to 15 mL of milk every 2 hours and is tolerating her feed increasings very well. What a little trooper. Now she literally just has to get big and strong!

Here she is without any of her face masks on, her nostrils are all stretched out from the nose prongs, the poor thing, I hate seeing her like this but I have to remind myself that si-pap is so much easier for her to tolerate.