Mixed emotions today. Ava has been doing great with weening the oxygen and nitric. Oxygen levels are at 35% and nitric levels are at 10%.
They have also made additional changes to the vent.
From 26 to 24 on the pressure support
From 32 to 30 on pressure control
Which are all good thing, but she is just not taking well to the feedings this far. She had a hard day with a lot of throwing up - which they can't really explain at this point. They did another X-ray at 6/00 this evening to ensure there was nothing out of the ordinary. They have stopped feeding her the breastmilk and continued with the Gatorade cocktail for now so they can figure out what is going on. Another X-ray first thing tomorrow morning will help to determine any issues.
I did get to hold her for a few minutes today but she started getting sick again and they had to quickly put her back in the bed.
Hard to take a setback after such a great couple of days. So goes the nature of the NICU.
She has really dark blue eyes like Ryan's but looks like a mix of the two when looking back at baby photos of the boys. All of the nurses say she looks like Daddy.
Matthew and I did have a little break tonight and got to see what Olivia Pope was up too in the White House.
Xoxo
She is so sweet. can't wait to see her. Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteI love these pics! We are praying for sweet baby Ava and your whole family. Love from the Conerty Crew!
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