First Huggs

This week Emily got off the vent.  Which means she doesn't need the tub down her throat.  She is now on a machine called BiPAP, which is a step above CPAP.  This machine is able to give her positive pressure to help keep Emily's lungs open and also gives her small breaths to help her to remember to breath.  Since getting on the machine she is already being able to go do on the breaths and by the end of the week she is now moved over to just the CPAP.  I also liked when we put the pacifier in her mouth that first she held on to it really well and that it was bigger then her mouth is.  If you look close the bottom of it is why passed her chin.


You like my helmet, I am ready for the game

When they took the vent out, one of the nurses was nice to get a pic of Emily without any thing on her face.  She got a little close so her face looks bigger than it really is, yet we like her thought.

 

With Emily off the vent she has been able to come out of her bed and mommy got her first real hugs on Monday.  The nurse told me the next day that the doctors wrote orders to do "Kangaroo" care twice a week.  I waited again to hold her on Friday so Blair could be there when we got to take her out.  We were surprised to hear the next day the doctor said we could start holding her once a day now.  It is nice to finally start feeling like mommy instead of a visitor to Emily.