Oxygen Issues

Amy had a restless day yesterday. According to Anna she was very agitated and couldn't seem to get comfortable. It may have been that the chopping and changing from bolus feeds to continuous feed the previous evening could have caused her to ger annoyed.

At the moment Amy's Oxygen requirements are creeping up and this is not a step in the right direction. This morning however the doctors were still of the opinion that she is doing very well. Apparently when premature babies are taken off ventilation they can do very well for a time and then regress for a period and require more oxygen; it's one of the side-effects of having under-developed lungs. While this is definitely not good, it's also par for the course for babies of this age. What we do have to watch for is her Oxygen requirements shooting up and up as this would indicate a problem elsewhere.

So all in all she didn't exactly have a bad day yesterday but more that we've been spoiled with almost 3 weeks of very encouraging progress followed by a day of not really moving forward. They did say it would be like this and I guess we'll have many more like this before November.

Anyway Amy was wide-awake this morning so here's a quick movie of her having a look around.

Morning All!