Nearly a kilo!

Baby Steps...

Yesterday they tried to extubate Lily again to make her do more of the breathing on her own. She lasted three hours before she decided she’d had enough, when they had to put the tubes back in again. (The tubes go in her mouth all the way into her lungs). They were trying to get her to do all the breaths on her own with the cpap (groovy little mask and snorkel looking thing on her nose). Her duct is still open, so I get the feeling she won’t be ready to breath on her own until it has closed. The first round of Nurofen has not worked, so it is likely that they will do a repeat dose of Nurofen, followed by Panadol if that does not work, and failing that if required and her breathing is still tricky, they will perform a small surgery on Lily to manually close it.

After her big day yesterday she looked pooped when I visited this morning, but happily napping away, and kind enough to leave me plenty slobber and goobies to clean up. I read one of my favourites to her today…”Oh the places you’ll go!” She’s such a little trooper, and already takes everything in her stride, she’s definitely going places.

She is getting bigger, and after another weigh in today she is now 966g, she might make a kilo by the weekend!