Feisty little girl

Lauren is still on CPAP! She has been on it since the 1st and is doing pretty well. She had a rough night last night with lots of oxygen desaturations, but redeemed herself today. Apparently, even though she had many desats, she was able to bring herself out of them and did not need any extra oxygen or any stimulation. Hopefully as she is getting older, these episodes will be less and less.
She has been doing so well with her feedings that they took her off the IV nutrition! She kept doing well and was able to get her PICC line out too! It's nice to have 1 less piece of equipment for her to be hooked up to. It was a little odd to walk in and not see a big IV pole next to her. More room for us to move around now which is nice. More nutritional labs were drawn yesterday and finally showed an improvement which is good news. Lauren is currently 2lbs 10oz!
She also had her first eye exam this week to check for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP.) This is a concern for premature babies and the risk increases when they are also low birth weight like Lauren. ROP can lead to slight vision problems requiring glasses or to blindness. Lauren's exam was NORMAL! She will have another exam in a few weeks, so we are trying to keep in mind that may show some changes, but we're very glad this initial exam was good.
Here are some pictures that I took today.
#1-I just wanted to show off how much blonde hair she has! :)
#2-One of our favorite Nurses, Audrey, put Lauren in a preemie onsie today! It was so cute to see her in it. It was so big on her.
#3 & #4- When the Nurse & respiratory therapist suctioned and changed her CPAP equipment, Lauren did not want them to put the CPAP prongs back in her nose so she decided to just put her hand in the way! We were all laughing pretty hard at her, because they had to pry her hand out of the way.

One more funny thing-- The Nurse said that after she changed one of Lauren's diapers this morning, she had to leave the top of her isolette up for a while because she needed to air it out since it stunk so bad. :) I'm sure Lauren is going to love reading this years from now!