Nine Weeks
Emma had another good day (well, apart from a big spell following her afternoon feed).
She's now 33 weeks gestational age and has been in the NICU for 9 weeks (63 days, 5 hours, and 24 minutes, but who's counting), longer than many of the babies there.
She was able to go for more than 10 consecutive hours off CPAP and nasal canula today. She's up to about 16 hours on the nasal prongs (most of that time in room air/requiring no additional oxygen) and 8 hours on CPAP each day now. Her next goal is to be weaned off CPAP entirely, which will hopefully happen in the next couple of weeks.
As the pictures show, Emma was very alert this afternoon and was awake for more than 15 minutes after her 3:00 p.m. care/feed. That was a first time I've seen her stay awake that long and we were able to capture the event.... Another photo for Miss Emma's Book of Love (Thank you for the beautiful scrapbook, Pepper!)
She's now 33 weeks gestational age and has been in the NICU for 9 weeks (63 days, 5 hours, and 24 minutes, but who's counting), longer than many of the babies there.
She was able to go for more than 10 consecutive hours off CPAP and nasal canula today. She's up to about 16 hours on the nasal prongs (most of that time in room air/requiring no additional oxygen) and 8 hours on CPAP each day now. Her next goal is to be weaned off CPAP entirely, which will hopefully happen in the next couple of weeks.
As the pictures show, Emma was very alert this afternoon and was awake for more than 15 minutes after her 3:00 p.m. care/feed. That was a first time I've seen her stay awake that long and we were able to capture the event.... Another photo for Miss Emma's Book of Love (Thank you for the beautiful scrapbook, Pepper!)
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