Monday, February 6, 2012

NICU Day 29 (January 5th)

Noelle turned 4 weeks old today, and I wish we could be more excited about that and not be facing what we are currently.  Nothing really has changed since the last update.  She is somewhat stable at this point and had an okay afternoon without desatting.  About 5:00PM she started struggling with her oxygen saturation again so they suctioned her, moved her position and adjusted her pressures.  It helped some, but she still is sitting just under where she should be with her saturation, so the alarm is constantly beeping on the monitor right now.  They have started her on a different medication to hopefully help her heart constrict better, and they will check the echocardiogram tomorrow to see if she is responding at all to the treatment.  For those who have mentioned it or asked, we do have a little recorder in her isolette (thanks to our Flock from our church) on which we recorded ourselves singing to her, reading to her and praying with her, so we push play on it and the nurses do as well every so often so that she hears our voices even when we are not there.  It's down to a matter of waiting right now...waiting to see how her body responds to the treatment; waiting to see how God chooses to work in and through this situation.  I wish we could respond to each person individually and thank you for your prayers--you will never know the encouragement it is to our hearts.  Thank you.

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