BABY J - Day 7- Moving up!

Look at all that hair.

Baby J.  2 weeks old today

Weight 2lbs 2oz 

Yea for the first time, mostly good news today.   My brother and I drove up for the day to spend time with Baby J.   Yesterday they started Baby J on steroids (again I know not always the best thing- but it was a necessity at this point) and already things are improving. She is down to the 20's most of the time in percent of oxygen supplement.  The ventilator is being slowly worked down to where they can move her off of this one.   She also seems more comfortable.  She relaxes faster after being moved around or messed with and her stats recover much more rapidly than they were.   Her blood gases came back better today and her X-ray's even looked pretty good today.  She is also handling the upping of her feedings which are all still being done through a tube that leads to her stomach, but the residuals from it show that she is digesting it pretty well.   Now she is being given 4ml every 6 hrs.    They even stopped her IV fluids for a little bit today to help bring down some numbers from that and she is producing very full diapers (even peed through most of her bed yesterday).  The nurse thought she was finally getting about done with passing her merconion (SP?) so they will send that off to double check for drug use by her birth mom.   Oh and they are getting less blood when they suction her out- in fact very little.

Please keep her in your prayers tomorrow as they are scheduled to do another brain scan and I'm hoping her brain bleeds resolved themselves.  This is an aspect of all of this that I'm very worried about.   

Please continue to share our fundraising site.  I would still very much like to have enough to cover the Ronald McDonald house during my stays while she is so far away.   

Rearranging Baby J.