October 14, 2008

I love this picture. She is so beautiful and peaceful. You can really see how she looks and it just makes me want to hold her.

Amaree was moved back into a Giraffe incubator because the noise of the other one was irritaing her. They said it was really noisy and that they were going to try to get another one, but it may be a few days. She has gained a little weight, and has only had to be sedated once in the last three days. Her oxygen has been around 30%, and she is no longer recieivng steriod treatement.

She had another A & B this morning. It was a grade 0, so it was very minor, and not much for us to stress about, but we still do sometimes. Mindi, our nurse and one of our primaries, said that once she looked at Amaree then she came out of it. It was really good that she came out of it on her own, and that she has had so few. Some babies have 8-10 a day.

We are still waiting for the scope on the vocal cords, it will probably be much later today. I talked to them about it and they told me that it is a very short procedure where they take a 2-3mm camera and go up the nose and then down into the throat to look at her vocal cords. It takes 30 seconds to a minute and they have the results. It is just getting them there to do it that takes so long.