Lily Day 6

Daniel wrote this about Lily yesterday (Tuesday Day 6):
"Lily got switched off the CPAP mask onto the high flow and is breathing great. She has her next echocardiogram today but nurses say they aren't hearing the murmur so we are hopeful.
Doc told us today that the signs say she was low on amniotic fluid and already pretty stressed in the womb. They can tell that by a couple things, the biggest being her size, but also her skin is pretty mottled. Basically since she was stressed in the womb her blood flow was diverted to protect her brain, heart, and lungs. So her skin and intestines didn't get as much time to develop. She needs to catch up on those things. Basically she needs to get eating too so she can get growing. She's lost some weight since birth which is normal but we are hoping to get her up to birth weight in the next couple days. She's been down to 1 lb 3 ounces and now is back up to 1 lb 5.5 ounces. One of my friends said 'she weighs less then a big gulp from 7 eleven."