Sorry for the lack of post yesterday. I usually post after our morning report, but yesterday morning was a pretty light morning for a report. She was on full feedings and her oxygen was still the 4 liter CPAP. They didn't do any labs because they were giving her that lab holiday I mentioned.
That was pretty much all he news until we got to the hospital and learned they were going to take out her CPAP!! YAY!!! Not only did they take her off the that, they dropped her all the way down to 1 liter oxygen! Now, I will say, as they were switching her over, I was surprised to realize how safe I felt with her on the CPAP and now that security was gone. But, after a little while she settled down and got used to the little nose cannula and the 1 liter flow and was doing great. The have to keep her at about 40-50% on it, but I have to remind myself that it is just a 1 liter flow...
Everything was going well yesterday, I got to hold her, she was handling her feedings well, and she was off the CPAP. When we went to do her 8:30 hands-on and feeding, she had a REALLY poopy diaper, like the nurse had to change out the linens, because she blew out the sides. Then about 2 minutes later as the nurse was about to let Matt hold her, she noticed that she pooped again, so she changed her and noticed some blood in her stool. Well, the nurse practitioner came in and examined her, said her bowel sounds were great, her tummy was nice and soft, and she was fussy (a sign that she's feeling good and feisty). So, they ordered an X-ray, which after about an hour (Harper was not happy they were delaying her feeding) came back completely clear. Then they ordered labs, which took another hour to come back. They decided that it must just be a fissure (a sore up her little bum), so they would go ahead and resume feedings. But, her CBC did still show that her immature white blood cells were still a little high, they are coming down from where they were, I just don't think they are coming down as fast as they would like. And her red blood cell count was down, darn it, looks like another transfusion might be in our future. But, they did start giving her iron so that might help a little. They always start preemies on iron once they get to full feedings.
They were going to repeat the labs this morning and we are heading up there early today so we will wait to get the morning report when we get there. We are getting up there early because Santa is coming to the NICU and Harper will be getting her picture taken with him!! YAY!! I will try and update later with the morning lab information.
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