What a day in Peanutville!

Where do I begin? How about with a 2 lb 12.2 oz Peanut Pic?!

Peek-a-boo! See, she's ready to play!
Today was a very good day, but it still wore me out! Peanut is so relaxed and apparently happy on her new vent...but the not-so-good part was that her CO2 kept going up. They took her from 40 up to 50 breaths per minute and at the next check, it wasn't any better. It was in the mid-hi 70's. This earned her yet another new toy...a bigger breathing tube! She'd outgrown the old one. They told me that if a baby her size was admitted today, she would have a larger tube...and that basically the vent wasn't able to fully do it's job because air was escaping around the small tube in her big throat.

It seemed, as I asked questions, that this was a normal thing and that they did it all the time...so I said a prayer and stepped out for a sandwich knowing that Miss Madeleine is a tough little cookie and she always seems to do well with the things that sound the most intense. Being extubated, bagged and intubated...NO PROBLEM...peeing and pooping...CHALLENGING!
(Even though she's still doing those well at this time!) Here's a pic of Maddie's new friend, Mr. Servo i. You can see her other friends back there too...Mr. Nitric Oxide, who got turned down from 5 to 2.2 today and in a week, he will be an old friend that she doesn't hang out with anymore. Even farther back, Mr. Oscillator...hopefully they've played for the last time.

So today Peanut got a new ventilator, new tube and new neobar, white instead of yellow, and it doesn't pull her fat little face together like the old one. He CO2 is down from the 70's to the 50's now...that means it's good. :) You know what made me squeal (inside) with delight?? They said now I'll get to hold her soon! My Peanut!!!

I'll now leave you with the sleeping Peanut, snoozing right after her 13 ml of milk...the Perpetually Precious and Perfect, Pretty Princess of Power is hopefully dreaming of her Posh Purple Peanut Palace (that her mommy needs to PAINT!)...see you tomorrow, Madeleine Rose!