Day 34 - 29 weeks

Ava's O2 setting is down to 47. It hasn't been down to that point in a long time. Her settings are: amplitude - 17 (up from 15), mean - 11. Her CO2 is up to 69 tonight but the doctor didn't change her settings because he figured it would change. The CO2 monitor on her ranged from 40s - 50s when I was in there today. She did lose 3ml of food after the last feeding, but they are only concerned if it is 5ml or more. If it is 5ml, then they will lower her calories to 24. Hopefully they won't have to. They are going to flip her in the incubator and weigh her at 3am.

Her nurse went on break today and the nurse that was watching over her saw that she was "desatting" in the 60s and she got nervous and was going to up her O2. Thankfully another nurse that knows Ava told her not to because she knew that Ava would go up again (which she did). This is what makes me nervous about the nurses that don't know how Ava is. They just increase her O2 and then it takes forever to go down.

We'll be praying for the same nurses and doctors... The doctor on-call today seemed more positive to the nurses because he hadn't seen her settings that low in awhile.