Guilty As Charged

I knew it had to happen and I was warned. When you post something twice a day and then nothing for a whole day, everyone assumes something's wrong. Sorry if I've caused any panic folks but young Amy is just fine.

Yesterday we got back from Woodborough and shot off to do Amy's 9PM cares. When we arrived we found that she'd been attached to another piece of headgear, some prongs to give her Oxygen. Those of you following the whole breathing/lungs thread will be aware that Amy's Oxygen requirements have been on the up for the last few days. One problem with giving her ambient Oxygen (through a hose into the incubator) is that she's gone through periods of getting too much or not enough, thereby setting alarms off every 2 minutes. One way to combat this is to use the prongs and deliver Oxygen steadily on a constant basis. So far so good.

Amy has also been 'promoted' round the room and is moving ever closer to the door to the next room - where the bigger babies hang out. We're quivering with excitement.

This morning they tried again to get Amy on to regular bolus feeds as opposed to continuous and as of 11:00AM today she was getting 7.8ml of Anna's milk on the hour. They'll try and change this to 2-hourly feeds as soon as possible assuming she tolerates it ok. A couple of people have asked why they are so keen to get her onto bolus as opposed to continuous feeding and although we've speculated, no-one has given us a definitive answer. Well find out and let you know.

In the meantime here's a couple of pics for you including a sure sign that Amy is picking up some of her mother's nasty habits. She's using hand signals to tell us when she's had enough - see the last shot for an explanation of that one!

More tomorrow (promise)

Anna gets cuddles - Click to enlarge
Amy get some zzzs - Click to enlarge
We celebrate every small step - Click to enlarge
Amy lets us know when she's had enough - Click to enlarge