Scarlett is Free at Last

Scarlett moved to nasal cannula today!  She is now on a flow of 0.3 ml/minute.  She is getting her oxygen from the wall, so it comes out as 100%  oxygen mixture.  Scarlett looked pretty comfortable.  Signs that the nurses will watch out for are:

• Increased respiratory rate, especially for an extended period of time
• Increased heart rate
• Watching her stomach/chest movements and head bobbing indicating that she is taking extremely deep breaths
• Desatting

Basically if she is working harder to get the oxygen into and absorbed through her lungs, then she will need to go back to CPAP.  Typically babies will tell you within 72 hours if they were truly ready for the move.

Also, if everything goes well, we are targeting Grayson to make the same transition on Monday!

Here are pictures of my precious beauty!

Snuggled up inside my shirt.  I had her vertical on my chest and she decided she was more cofortable horizontal. 

 "I'm a big girl daddy!"

The shirt says it all: "Absolutely Perfect" 

This was how I found out the transition had been made, by looking through the web cam.  They asked us if we wanted it done while we were there but we knew she wanted the mask off ASAP!