New Room and more changes!

We are now in the yellow section of the NICU (growers and feeders). We moved on Wednesday late afternoon. The room is huge!

They switched Abigail to all high flow/high humidity on Friday. Then on Sunday they lowered her flow from 5 liters to 4 liters. As they continue to lower she will be able to start feeding by mouth!

Joshua loves his sister and actually sat there looking at her for 10 minutes. We had to convince him to go eat because he was being a little too loud. Every time she did something he would comment or laugh about it. "She put her tongue out," or "She opened her fingers," or "She open her eyes." The more he talked the less Abigail was able to lay peacefully.

BREASTFEEDING DETAILS

I am able to start working with Abigail on learning what to do to breastfeed. I have to make sure that my breasts are completely empty because they don't want her to really get anything since her flow of oxygen is still high. She could aspirate if she gets too much and that could cause pneumonia. The first few times I tried she really wasn't awake enough to do much but she still nuzzled and got a bit of the idea. Today when we did I made sure I was here in time to pump before her hands on time at 8:30 when she is most awake. I was so excited that she latched on and sucked for several minutes. She would pause and maintain her latch and keep sucking! All that coordination wore her out though and she was ready to sleep.