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| The girls getting ready for ANOTHER procedure! |
Room air challenge
The girls all had a room air challenge on Saturday. Their nasal cannulas are removed and they test to see how long their oxygen saturation stays above 90. Teagan and Rianne were able to maintain that level for over 30 minutes, so they passed. Brielle plummeted down within 30 seconds so she failed meaning she has a form of bronchopulmonary dysphasia.
Here is an article from NIH on BPD.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002079/
We won't know the details till the doctor rounds on Monday. Teagan is down to a quarter liter of room air and so far so good. Rianne is at a half liter of room air and has had a few spells the past few days so she won't be weaned down yet. Brielle is at a half liter on 35% oxygen.
Eating
Brielle loves to eat and gets so excited that she forgets to breathe. She is only eating a couple meals by bottle and it's not an easy process. Teagan and Rianne are eating more than half their feedings by bottle and doing better at breathing while eating. You can really see how they eat, stop, breathe, then go at it again. Dad could take a lesson with his chips and cookies.
Eat. STOP. Breathe!
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| The physical therapist tried a special wrapping technique and Ri still got out of it. |
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| On the way to Fantasy Nails after she gets out... |
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| The expression 10 fingers and 10 toes changed to 30 fingers and 30 toes for us... |
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| Ri wouldn't go to sleep so we let her play "Angry Birds" on the iPhone for an hour and she was out! |
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| Sleeping angel |
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| I wish I knew what she was thinking... |
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| Bri's more of a Word Find girl... |
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| Bri: If I push just a little harder I think I can get the whole thing in my mouth! (one of my absolute favorite pictures!) |
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| Almost...almost! |
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| She did it. She finally ate her Binkie! |
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| Kind of a Buddhist Monk look to Teagan |
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| She kind of looks like one of those Thanksgiving horns... |
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| See! |
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| Binkie! |
My parents hooked up Skype and asked me to load it on my computer so they could see the kids, but we found it easier to use Facetime, an app on the iPhone. My parents will call from their mac in their kitchen and I just point the iPhone camera to the kids and they can see them but more importantly, the girls got to hear their grandmother and grandfather from Maryland for the first time.
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| The girls said they liked the Maryland uniforms...it did look like a Paladin going into battle. Maryland's official sport is jousting of all things...go figure... |
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