Face, Cot, Feeds & Clothes

On Wednesday we got to see ou beautiful baby girls' face properly for the first time :) This means she has been taken off her CPAP Ventilator and is able to breathe fully on her own!

Tahnee is also on a continuous milk feed (breastmilk), which has a purpose of getting her gut used to digesting food. She receives this via the green tube in her mouth (its now in her nose). She began this type of feeding on Tuesday and received 1ml each hour. On Wednesday this was increased to 2ml every hour and today it was upped again to 3ml, with the doctors saying they are considering upping it a mil twice a day! This is fantastic news, as they wouldnt increase the dose if she wasnt tolerating the milk.

Other big news includes the fact that she has been moved out of her warmer and into a cot! She still occupies the same spot in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) but we are able to have easier access to her and we are now allowed to pick her up and hold whenever we want, without needing permission or help from the nurse :)

She is also being dressed in clothes. Her tops are the pinafore type ones like the one used to hide her bowels (see previous posts). And yesterday she was also in pants and socks!

Each of these small baby steps means we are one step closer to taking her home :)

Selecton of her stuffed animals