Today was rather uneventful compared to yesterday. Dr. Parilla ended her rounding time 
yesterday so we are now under the care of Dr. Roa. He reminds Eric and I how small she is and her survial rate isn't the best. She was now on 48% O2 requirement and an amplitude of 24 on her new ventilator, which isn't great but not the worst either. They are drawing blood gases to check her O2 and Co2 level about every 4 hours and since they were able to draw blood from her UVC (umbilical vein catheter) she wasn't having to get stuck all the time. They inserted a PICC line in her right leg. This is an IV that can stay in for a long time. They will use it for the medications that she gets while her blood and platlet transfusions are going into the temporary IV site in her arm. Eric is scheduled to donate blood tomorrow so that Emma can have his blood from now on instead of a strangers. They have also had me using a breast pump for the last few days. She is not going to be eating for a while so, they are freezing the breast milk for when she is finally ready to eat. She is on what they call TPN which will give her all of the nutrients that she needs and it all goes through her PICC line. Her weight hasn't moved much, she weighed 455 tonight and no gain on her length! Eric and I looked at her for a while and then headed off to bed. Tomorrow I will be discharged, but the hospital will let us stay as long as there is a bed available. We'll keep our fingers crossed that the labor and delivery unit stays quiet for the next few days!
yesterday so we are now under the care of Dr. Roa. He reminds Eric and I how small she is and her survial rate isn't the best. She was now on 48% O2 requirement and an amplitude of 24 on her new ventilator, which isn't great but not the worst either. They are drawing blood gases to check her O2 and Co2 level about every 4 hours and since they were able to draw blood from her UVC (umbilical vein catheter) she wasn't having to get stuck all the time. They inserted a PICC line in her right leg. This is an IV that can stay in for a long time. They will use it for the medications that she gets while her blood and platlet transfusions are going into the temporary IV site in her arm. Eric is scheduled to donate blood tomorrow so that Emma can have his blood from now on instead of a strangers. They have also had me using a breast pump for the last few days. She is not going to be eating for a while so, they are freezing the breast milk for when she is finally ready to eat. She is on what they call TPN which will give her all of the nutrients that she needs and it all goes through her PICC line. Her weight hasn't moved much, she weighed 455 tonight and no gain on her length! Eric and I looked at her for a while and then headed off to bed. Tomorrow I will be discharged, but the hospital will let us stay as long as there is a bed available. We'll keep our fingers crossed that the labor and delivery unit stays quiet for the next few days!
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