Week 30, Day 6, Evening

Hannah's sleeping and mostly back to normal tonight. Her gas or air bubbles seem to be moving along and her blood tests look good. Vent settings are down a little more today (26 assisted breaths per minute and 35% oxygen), so she's breathing more on her own and using less oxygen supplement, slowly being weaned off the ventilator.

Carla got a scare this afternoon when she went in to visit Hannah. Apparently, Hannah had been squirming and waving her arm around too much for the IV line to stay in, so they put the IV in her scalp. I had read about this already, and it is common in preemies and very safe, but many people, including Carla, are pretty disturbed to see an IV line in their baby's head. Perhaps because we never see them in adult's heads. Anyway, they'd already moved the IV back to an arm by this evening, because the scalp line didn't work well enough.

All in all, everything is going OK. Hopefully, Hannah can get back on the milk feeds in a couple days so she can keep growing. She's still at 2 lbs 9 oz, probably because they have been clearing out her digestive system the past two days, and it probably holds an ounce or two at any given time.