Finally, some improvement
Emma is doing much better today. From a respiration point of view, she’s very stable… cruising along on room air (21% oxygen) with very few desaturations. They’ve turned down her ventilation rate to 15 and she will likely be able to go back on CPAP tomorrow or the next day.
In terms of the NEC, Emma still has a lot of air/old blood in her belly, but the docs don’t seem to be as concerned now. They haven’t ordered another xray (as Emma is clinically doing better) and are simply giving her stomach time to heal on its own (continuing with the antibiotics and IV fluids and withholding her feeds).
As Emma was much improved today, we were able to resume Kangaroo care. Not being able to hold her since last Friday has been really hard…
September 28th, 2005 at 2:49 am
Good going Emma. Hope you can hold her tomorrow Laurie. We can’t wait to hold her ourself. It’s very hard to be so far away and watch Emma’s hard fight for her future.
We worrie and care fmuch for all of you. Hugs and kisses.
September 28th, 2005 at 3:37 am
soooo glad you were able to hold her today Laurie and hopefully tomorrow, and tomorrow,…, too!!
September 28th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Whew, I am relieved to log on today and find this post.
September 28th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Sounds wonderful! I would imagine not holding her would be really really hard. Who can resist holding something so perious.
glad to hear about her improvements.
Hugs
Sharon
September 28th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
Very glad to hear of the improvement. And it’s wonderful that you can hold her again – that’s gotta help!