Monday, February 6, 2012

NICU Day 14 (December 21st)

Noelle had a good day overall today.  They still have her on the new ventilator and have not put her back onto the jet ventilator as of yet so we're hoping this will stick with her and she can graduate to the CPAP machine in another 10 days or so.  Her white blood count was lower today and no news has come back regarding an infection as of yet, so we're thankful for that.  Her blood sugar has been stable, and they are trying to adjust her different fats/nutrition that she receives to help her start putting on weight and growing.  We did find out today that she had what they consider to be a level 2 brain bleed.  They re-evaluated her last cranial ultrasound with a neurologist and believe they saw a small blood clot; however, this level is not usually anything that has long term effects, and she does not seem to have any side effects currently from it.  They will continue to do ultrasounds every week or two to monitor it just to be safe, but they believe we are past the worst danger point for her to develop anything further with it.  There still is a concern for her to develop NEC, and this will be the most crucial for the next month or so.  Currently, she is tolerating her feeds very well, and they bumped her to .6 today so we are thankful for that too.  Overall, a good day and another day down.  She will be two weeks old in just a few more hours!!  Thanking God for each day...

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