Happy Mothers Day
Elizabeth is 4 weeks old today. It is hard to believe that it has been 5 weeks since our lives have been flipped upside down. It seems like it was both just yesterday and has been going on forever.
We have had a busy week in the NICU. Elizabeth has been started on steroids to help her lungs. Once again she had a collapsed lung and had an air leak. The leak was caused by part of her lungs over inflating and some of the alveoli burst, leaking air into her chest cavity. On Friday morning, after trying non-invasive measures to treat this, the doctor had to put a chest tube in to let the air out; this is her second chest tube (the first was after her surgery). With the chest tube in, steroids, and heavy duty antibiotics on board Elizabeth is doing much better. The doctor hopes that she is turning the corner.
Today was a great day for Elizabeth, her nurse says that she is a different baby then she was a few days ago. She is requiring less oxygen than she has since before her surgery and her vent settings have been coming down. Elizabeth’s condition has improved enough to be given some food again. The order for now is 1cc every 3 hours. So far she has had “two servings” and tolerated them very well. She is given the milk through a tube that goes to her stomach, after each feed the nurses check to see how the milk was digested. So far so good, Elizabeth has tolerated and digested the food so far. Hopefully she will continue this trend.
Elizabeth looks bigger to me, she has gained some ounces but it is hard to tell what is realy weight is with the changing and adding of various tubes. One of her nurses who had been on vacation for two weeks also thinks that she looks bigger and more mature. Elizabeth’s hair is growing, dark black, at the rate it seems to be growing she might need a hair cut before she comes home.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend
I also must mention how fabulous and amazing Matt's brother John is and our sister-in-law Janessa. They thought to send me some beautiful flowers for Mother's Day just in case Matt wasn't able to get out and get something. Thanks to you both we love you!
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