Sarah is doing well today. She was a little puffy so they gave her lasix(a diuretic) to get some water weight off her. Her feeds are still at 26cc's every 3 hours. She weighs 3 pounds 1 ounce and she is 14.5 inches long. She kept brady'ing this morning...basically her heart rate would drop pretty low and her monitors would alarm.She is okay now, but the Respiratory Therapists think that it could be because her breathing tube leaks air. The docs are thinking about changing her breathing tube tomorrow. It's a possiblity, but not set in stone. It will be bigger to decrease the leak and hopefully once they change it they can take her off Contact Precautions. I am hoping so!! Hopefully soon she can be off the Jet and back on a conventional ventilator so I can hold her again! Hopefully after the ventilator she can get to the point where she won't need a machine to breathe for her. She has what the nurses fondly call "toaster head" where her head is flat on both sides but big in the back...lol. That's it for now
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