Week 31, Day 3, Really Late

Well, Hannah is up to 2 lbs 14 oz tonight, so she's definitely growing. The doctors are concerned that her oxygen requirements have increased today and her CO2 levels were high, so they've adjusted the ventilator settings and scheduled another transfusion to top off her red blood cells again. They take a lot of little blood samples every day, and she's still too young to regenerate her own red blood cells at a fast enough rate to replace the ones she loses. And those red blood cells are what carry the oxygen around, so if they are low, it could be affecting the oxygen requirements.

Hannah had a few visitors tonight: her Aunt Rena (my sister) and Uncle Gabe, and Aunt Rosemary (aka CeCe the Clown). Even half asleep and without much to say, Hannah doesn't seem to have a problem making friends and convincing everyone that she's the most beautiful baby in the world. :-)

Gabe flew in for Jon and Cat's wedding next weekend, and Rena and Rosemary drove over from Bossier to pick him up. We watched Dad's Slideshow (35MB), then had to crash, because they all have to get back on the road at 8am. Speaking of which . . . I've uploaded some pictures from Dad's funeral. If you were there and took some pictures, I'd very much appreciate it if you could email them to me. Thanks!