Rounding the Corner

All through the night last night Mae did really great. The doctor told us that at some point kids in Mae's position usually round a corner and start doing drastically better, and last night seemed to be that for Mae.

Her numbers on the monitor have been great, she stayed in the 90's all night on her pulse ox. Her respiration monitor has been jumping all over the place, but they figured out that it was picking up her heartbeat on that lead, so all it amounted to was a lot of beeping all night.

They tested her blood gas levels again and they were really good, so they took her off the CPAP and put her on a newer type of machine called an Optiflow that is supposed to allow them to use much lower flows without the risk of putting fluid in their lungs. Mae is doing great on the new system, her numbers didn't even falter.

When the doctors came to do rounds today he told us that he was very impressed with the progress she had made.  He also told us that there was some concern that she could have an infection of some kind. She had a blood test that tested for inflammation levels and it came back a little high, which is an indicator that there could be an infection, possibly even pnemonia, that has been causing her progress to be so slow up to this point. So for now they are leaving her on the antibiotics and they are going to run that test again before and after they give her the medicine. He did say that the chances of that being the case are very slim, mostly because Beth's water didn't break before the c-section.

They are going to take the central line in her belly button out and try to get another IV location on one of her arms. But they are not going to give her constant fluid, so it will be at least one tube she won't be hooked up to all the time.

The other good news is he told us that we can start holding her as much as we can. Which is great news, because Beth has held her a couple of times, but only for about 30 minutes total. And I held her for a couple minutes after she was born and once to pass her back to the nurse from Beth. So we are both really excited to get some quality cuddle time with our little girl.

Things are definitely looking up!