Thursday June 5, 2008

The report from last night… I did get to hold both girls at the same time, it was so wonderful. Maggie was so good, she was wrapped in the pink blanket and got to come out first. We took off her CPAP to give her nose a rest and just used blow by oxygen – but she didn’t really need that either. The oxygen mostly sat away from her and we just had to wave it in front of her face twice. She was awake and looking around for the first part, and then finally went to sleep. I put my hand above her head to block some of the light, and she looked up at my hand and I think the back of my rings caught her attention, because she kept looking at them. Then we got Evie out, who was wrapped in the blue stripped blanket. I think we woke her from a deep sleep, because she wasn’t quite ready to breathe on her own – and she had just eaten. She turned a little purple right as we took her out and then reminded her what she was supposed to be doing, so she got to come out and take pictures. While she was out she opened her eyes and smiled with her sister. Then she went a little blue again and we decided we’d better put her back on her CPAP. Then Evie fell right back to sleep. I held them for about an hour and a half and Dad did stop working and come over to see us. Joe says the girls are like onions – they make his eyes water when he is around them.

At this point, you should definitely go look at the new pictures in the photo gallery – start at the bottom of page one. (There are 2 pictures on page 2 also)

The difficult part of the night was putting them back because Maggie was not happy about having to get her CPAP back on. She thought she’d proven herself, so she didn’t have to have it and fussed. But she might have had a point because the prongs got her and made her nose bleed, poor thing. But it quickly clotted and she was sleeping when we left. However, she might have found a sneaky way to get back on the nasal cannula. The nurse asked Dr. Hiller if they could try her on nasal cannula again – which has smaller nose prongs and much lower pressure – to help her little nose. So, she started on that at 2:30 am and was great when we checked her at 8:30 am this morning. I’m worried she’ll get a bit tired from working on breathing, but the nurses will watch her. She’ll probably go back and forth between the cannula and CPAP, but any little break helps.