Elizabeth is doing well. She has had a great week.
On Wednesday afternoon her feeds were increased to 2cc, she was doing well with that and was bumped up to 3cc on Thursday morning, and today she is getting 4cc. Her goal is 13cc, as long as Elizabeth is tolerating each feed well she will be increased by 1cc each day. So far so good.
Her CPAP pressure was taken down from 6 to 5 and that is as low as they will go. Her next step is to be weaned off the CPAP very slowly onto a nasal cannula. They will do this by taking her off the CPAP for a short time each day and increasing the time off as Elizabeth tolerates it . On Wednesday Elizabeth was taken off CPAP for one hour a day while I held her. It was nice to see her whole face! She sure is a pretty baby! Starting today Elizabeth will be on nasal canulla for 1 1/2 hours twice a day while being held.
Apparently Elizabeth feels that she has been in the NICU for a while and now knows how to operate some of her equipment. The past few day Elizabeth has removed her feeding tube several times each day and removed her CPAP too.
Have a great weekend everybody!
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