Week 36, Day 6, Back to Cannuland

Hannah's back on the nasal cannula, and at the lowest oxygen setting yet. This is very encouraging, since her breathing is really the main thing keeping her in the hospital at this point. Of course, we still have to get her to 100% bottle feeds, but she was well on her way to that before she had to back to the CPAP mask.

Carla and Hannah had a great holding session today, with very few de-sats (brief periods where Hannah's blood oxygen saturation dips and alarms go off) and some very animated action on the pacifier. We assume that's Hannah's way of saying she wants the bottle back. They'll probably start her back on the bottle tomorrow; until then she's getting milk through the feeding tube (Which, as you can see in the photo above, is up her nose today. That'll teach her to stop pulling it out of her mouth.)