Day 139 - 44 weeks

Ava's blood gas was 72 this morning. Not good especially after it went down yesterday. It needs to go down so her breaths per minute (rate) will go down. She can't go home on a rate.

Her nurse today thought she was acting odd. We came in and she looked so white. But after she heard that we were there, she perked right up. I was there for her to get her food, and we gave her the paci and squirted milk from a syringe into her mouth while she was sucking and she LOVED it. She sucked on her paci for over 45 minutes and it would get upset if it came out.

We bought her a rainforest mobile from Fisher-Price since she is getting so bored with sitting awake in her crib today. She loved it! I heard she stared at it for over an hour. We also bought her a rocker bouncy seat. I feel like this is my first child since we need to buy almost everything new or colorful for her. I'm also looking for a pink tub with a sling in it. I can not find one in ANY store, so I may just have to buy it online. Fisher-Price didn't even have the cute pink one in the store. Anyone seen a pink tub around?

The nurse also suggested getting this cool octopus that hangs and it's arms move and when the kids are older it makes a light show. Has anyone seen that? She said it came out a couple of years ago. We feel so guilty not being able to be there all the time with Ava. She just sits in her crib all day staring at things.

Ava weighs almost 7 lbs. 14 oz.

Praying for lung healing and to breast feed...