NICU Day 33 (January 9th)

We are thanking God for yet another pretty uneventful day with Noelle.  She was able to rest and just take it easy for most of the day.  They did do the echocardiogram, but we do not yet have the results back.  Hopefully we will learn tomorrow that the pulmonary hypertension is getting better.  Clinically, she is doing very well.  They were able to wean her ventilator settings even more today and she sat between 35% and 40% oxygen for most of the day.  She did lose some weight again, so our prayer is that she will really start gaining weight and growing.  She should have more than doubled her weight by now since she is 4 1/2 weeks old, but she has had too many setbacks for her body to be able to do this.  Hopefully as other things get better, her body will respond to the milk correctly and gain weight and grow.  We continue to pray for her heart as well that it will grow stronger and constrict better.  She is currently on medication to help this, so our prayer is that once the hypertension starts getting better and they wean her medication that her heart will continue doing well on its own.  Lord willing, we are looking forward to more "uneventful" days up ahead!!