What a great day for miss Isabelle! When I walked in today our nurse was so excited to tell me that Izzy has made it to the vapotherm vent! Vapotherm is the last ventilator that she has to be on before she's just on oxygen. This one uses heated oxygen but it's a lot less pressure being put into her lungs to keep them open, so she has to do that all on her own now! I think I've watched a million babies be put on vapotherm during our NICU stay. It's been so so hard to watch other babies progress so fast, especially when Izzy was stuck with the tube in her mouth for so long. SO you can see how this is such a big day for us. She's hitting milestones that mean it's almost time to take her home and we are so happy about it!
One day, a couple weeks ago, Klay and I were sitting by Izzy's isolette and I kept overhearing nurses talking to other parents. One was teaching a mom how to breastfeed, another was explaining to a parent how vapotherm worked, and another was telling a mom that they were going on a "field trip" to another room because their baby was progressing quickly and was going to go home soon. I just started crying. I wanted nurses to be telling us those things, we had been there longer than anyone, and these babies were the same gestational age as Izzy, they had just been born later. How is that fair? Second to seeing Izzy have to suffer sickness and pain, the comparing us to other families has been one of the hardest things for me. Today was very healing to see her take a leap forward to be on vapotherm and doing well on it!
Every nurse that we've had lately has commented on how big Izzy is getting, she's chunky now! She weighs 5 pounds 7 oz. and she's jumped up to 46 mL of food every 3 hours.
She's still having ABD spells. At first I tried to figure out every little thing that could be causing them...she could be refluxing, her cannula comes out of her nose sometimes, water goes in the cannula occasionally. But really what I've come to realize this past week is that Izzy was very premature, and that's the best answer for why she keeps having the ABDs. Her brain is still catching up to where it's supposed to be, so she's not going to breathe perfect right now. One day it will catch up and her breathing will get more regular, but it's ok that it's not right now. She's not sick, she just has to develop.
One day, a couple weeks ago, Klay and I were sitting by Izzy's isolette and I kept overhearing nurses talking to other parents. One was teaching a mom how to breastfeed, another was explaining to a parent how vapotherm worked, and another was telling a mom that they were going on a "field trip" to another room because their baby was progressing quickly and was going to go home soon. I just started crying. I wanted nurses to be telling us those things, we had been there longer than anyone, and these babies were the same gestational age as Izzy, they had just been born later. How is that fair? Second to seeing Izzy have to suffer sickness and pain, the comparing us to other families has been one of the hardest things for me. Today was very healing to see her take a leap forward to be on vapotherm and doing well on it!
Every nurse that we've had lately has commented on how big Izzy is getting, she's chunky now! She weighs 5 pounds 7 oz. and she's jumped up to 46 mL of food every 3 hours.
She's still having ABD spells. At first I tried to figure out every little thing that could be causing them...she could be refluxing, her cannula comes out of her nose sometimes, water goes in the cannula occasionally. But really what I've come to realize this past week is that Izzy was very premature, and that's the best answer for why she keeps having the ABDs. Her brain is still catching up to where it's supposed to be, so she's not going to breathe perfect right now. One day it will catch up and her breathing will get more regular, but it's ok that it's not right now. She's not sick, she just has to develop.
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