14 Days Old - For Tante Marion

Time to play hide and seek. Can you see me? Do you know where I am hiding? No fair. You have been playing this game longer than I have. Yes, that is me under my womb blanket. Isn't it nice that people made this blanket for me before they even knew I was coming? I am glad that Mommy and the Quilt Group are going to make these blankets for other babies who come early.

If you know me, you know I have a Tante Marion. She works in hospitals and understands all of my breathing numbers. So, here is a special message for her. I am on a oscillating ventilator. They just decreased my MAP from 14.0 to 11.0. I started with an amplitude of 41 and now I am down to 28. My oxygen purity is currently in the 50's regularly but I still can't stand it lower than 38. I spike after each cluster care because I don't like it when they wake me up and do that medical stuff. But, I can usually calm myself down and get back in my zone. My sat rate is between 85% and 95%. And, I don't have many A's and B's (apneas and bradys) currently. My suctioning yielded very little of white to clear fluid. Nancy says I am very normal on the normal baby scale for lung secretions now.

Dr. Conrad is talking about graduating me to a more conventional vent next week. I hope I can deal with it. Sounds a little scary to me. I can't believe I am doing so well after last weekend when I wasn't doing very well at all.

Guess what I just did ? Yep. My first dirty diaper. I am so proud of me.

P.S. Mommy promised not to scare me by taking my picture today. Maybe I will let Mommy take a picture of part of me tommorrow.