Day 27: Improvement

Vivienne was a much happier baby today. She was very restless and uncomfortable last night but started feeling better this morning. The doctors think the morphine wean really hit her hard. Weaning off of the pain medication will be a difficult and lengthy process. She's basically an addict and has to go through withdrawal. Thankfully, she slept comfortably for most of the day. We held her for about three hours during our visit and were able to calm her during her brief periods of agitation. Viv was also able to keep all of her feeds down, (yay!) and the amount was increased to 20ml every three hours.

Happily, the doctors decided to try alternating between the mask CPAP and the ram cannula CPAP. So now the apparatus will be switched out every few hours. Viv seems so much happier on the ram cannulas. She doesn't get all puffy and doesn't have to deal with the straps cutting into her cheeks. Plus it allows us to see more of her beautiful face, which we just can't get enough of!