The nurses and doctors quite frequently tell me that Kate is doing exceptionally well for her age. Most the time I tell them she's my Good Luck baby! Most of them don't know that she was born in the "caul" (amniotic sac). Being born with the caul in medieval times was interpreted as a sign of good luck and that the child was destined for greatness. She's already started off on the right track.
Her sodium was good today. She will start to be weaned off the sodium chloride and the hydrocortisone again. She's been very calm. And the best news is her blood gas test(for O2 and C02) came back soo good that they want to try and get her off the ventilator this weekend and on the nasal canula. Her ventilator setting for how many breaths per minute she receives was turned down from 20 to 10 to see how she would tolerate it. She did pretty good with it today. I held her tonight, but she didn't tolerate that very well. After about 15 min. her oxygen saturation dropped and the respiratory therapist couldn't get her to stabilize. But that's ok- she had a big change with her ventilator settings and holding her is a pretty big deal for her to try and maintain her breathing. She did good, once she was back in her incubator.
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