Whatta Day!

Charlotte was wide awake when we went and seen her today.  She was so cute, but back to that in a minute.  She has been improving since she's been on reglan.  She has not had one drop in her heart since Friday on the midnight shift.  They were switching between CPAP and the blender (just the oxygen prongs) every 3 hours because her little nose was getting raw from the mask on the CPAP rubbing her.  Well she was doing so good off the CPAP they were going to move it up to 6 hours, but instead have decided they aren't going to put it back on unless she needs it.  GREAT NEWS!  However, keeping myself and everybody in check with reality, it could take a day or 2 and she could revert back to CPAP.  But for now we are taking this great news.  Her nose inside is so dry from the oxygen her nose bleeds :(  They do have humidity added to it, but...Maybe I'll ask tomorrow if it's improved and if not then I'll ask if they can add more humidity because I'm sure you know how bad it hurts when your nose is so dry. 

I believe her feedings are a little over an ounce now and she weighs...ready?....I can't believe it.....3lb 9oz!  It's AMAZING how she's filling out in her face, neck, etc.  So now back to her cuteness today.  She was laying there lookin around and sucking, you know how their tongue kinda curls when they are sucking?  So I put my finger in her hand to see what she would do.  She pulled my finger to her mouth and started sucking on it!!! I was so excited!  I hurried to get the nurse to get her a pacifier (and of course it's purple tee hee).  She LOVED LOVED LOVED that pacifier.  She started to high stat (her oxygen went from 88 to 100), which is really good because that means she was breathing more on her own because she was relaxing.  Then she started making this cute noise like she was grunting but it was more like a grunt and a mmmm, mmmm.  It was hiliarious.  She made her mommy and daddy's day today with that.  At this rate I'm hoping she'll be home by the middle of October, but again, they aren't giving me any date as of now because it's just too soon.  So I'm planning for her due date of November 11th and if it's sooner than that's even better.