Penelope is 5lbs 7oz. Her feeds are 42Q3 of 27 calorie fortified breast milk. Tomorrow marks 12 weeks since I got sick. We are less than 2 weeks from my due date. Holy cow!
Penelope's ROP eye exam this morning was stable with no change. Stable is good, no change is better than change for the worse. I was bummed when they told me because I know it means another week of no changes, no progress, and I'm growing impatient. Shortly after the exam the nurse practitioner came into to do her daily assessment. She said she was going to pitch the idea of turning down the high flow and turning up the oxygen for the same effectiveness, but that I shouldn't get my hopes up. Dr Dagle wasn't keen on that idea last week, so he probably won't be today either. Well, the stars must have aligned because he went for it. So her high flow has been turned down to 2 liters per minute, and they turned her oxygen level up. This gives her the same effective oxygen levels as it did on the 3 litres. So if she does well over night on the change then she can have a BOTTLE tomorrow! I am so excited! If that goes well then we can talk about moving to a new Bay. So, while the eyes haven't made any progress, it sounds like we can at least work on something else this week, which makes the waiting a little easier to deal with.
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