3 weeks tomorrow

It's crazy to think that Elizabeth is 3 weeks old tomorrow...it seems like she was born just yesterday. I can't wait until she gets to come home :D Elizabeth is doing good...not fantastic but good...she's having troubles tolerating her feedings...she's on 23 mls of breast milk continuously on a pump...so hopefully that will help her be able to digest it easier. And they gave her 2 medications for acid reflux...hopefully that will help too. She lost 10 grams last night, I'm sure it's because she's been spiting up so much. And they took her off of the nasal canula and onto a headbox...which is just a box that goes over her head (thus the name) and she gets oxygen through that. It just helps her get a break from the canula and it lets her nostrils heal up a bit. Anyway I gotta go see my baby girl...talk to ya later.


Pics are soon to come I finally got access to a computer that doesn't only have internet..yay...

16 Days Old

Elizabeth is now 16 days old...last night she weighed 3 lbs but that weighed could be inaccurate because they changed her isolet yesterday. And on Sunday she was 15 1/4 inches long. She's doing good--shes off of the respirator and off of cpap--which was bubbly water that helped keep her lungs open. She just onto regular nasal tube that gives her oxygen it's called a nasal canula. She's eating alot (of course through a feeding tube) she's up to 22 mls every 3 hrs. They took her off of humidity and she has been able to maintain her body temperature and keep up her body weight so far. Shes up to the normal preemie diapers now. Which is huge on her but the littlest ones were getting tight on her.

Elizabeth Kae is here

Yes my little girl is here. She was born March 7, 2006 at 10:17 am. And yes her due date wasn't until June 5--you do the math. Right now we are staying here in SLC at the Ronald McDonald house..since my little girl is at the NBICU unit at University of Utah hospital. She weighed 2 lbs 7 oz and was 15 inches long when she was born. Pretty much I went into labor very unexpectedly...one minute we're getting ready to eat dinner...the next we're being life flighted to Salt Lake. That was on Sunday...March 5th...I was on magnesium sulfate right up until my water broke at 8:45 am on the 7th...luckily we got 37 1/2 hours of the steriod shot that develops her lungs faster into her. Right now, she is doing very good. She is on a respirator right now because she had an incident with her on Saturday morning (around 2 am) and almost lost her. They are beginning to wein her off of that right now. She's not eating right now...they are most likely going to start her back on the feedings tomorrow. She's under phototherapy lights right now but that isn't uncommon...shes under that for jaundice. Her blood pressure is good and has been. We're expecting to be discharged from U of U around her due date...so we have a little bit before then. I doubt I'll be on here very often since we don't have good access to a computer...except at the hospital. I doubt I'll be able to put any pictures of her on here until we are able to go home. Anyway I'll see everyone in a while....