Day 138

Ava's gas was not too good this morning. It was 76, so they put her Peep back up to 9 and her rate when back up to 40. Her blood gas finally came down to 62 later this afternoon. The nurse thought they were going to hesitate on feeding her, but they still had her try and feed. She is in 39% O2.

Ava did really good with the bottle today. She didn't cough or really gag. She gagged only once when she usually gags more than that. They put her on CPAP (without the breaths per minute helping her) and she settled after 4 minutes. Then she took the bottle and was sucking really well. She even stopped to breathe. The speech therapist was pleased and if she hadn't seen the other two days she wouldn't even think about the swallow study. The swallow study will probably be sometime later next week. Not on Monday. They are going to only have her feed for the speech therapist next week and not the nurse this weekend. While she was eating, she satted really well, and her heartrate was fine. The speech therapist stopped sooner than I thought she would and Ava ate 6 ml.

Praying for Ava to heal and feed easily...