Brooklyn in the NICU

After they took Brooklyn to the nursery to bathe her and such they discovered that her oxygen levels were not as high as they should be and she started to have shallow rapid breathing, so they put her in an oxygen tent to try and turn things around. Also, while they were bathing her one of the nurses noticed a click sound in her hip. Knowing my family history of hip dysplasia the doctor took a second look and also found a click so he ordered an ultrasound of her hip to check it out. They waited to do the ultrasound until she was unhooked from the machines but when it was done the ultrasound tech didn't find anything abnormal. Whew what a relief!

Eventually they told us she had wet lung, which is where she still has some fluid in her lungs and is having trouble getting it all out. Her oxygen levels would go up a little and then come back down, but hey couldn’t get her levels to stay up. After a while of the tent they tried putting an oxygen mask over her face and eventually hooked her up to a C-Pap machine in hopes that a little pressure forcing the air into her lungs might help to open the air sacs in her lungs and enable her to breathe more deeply and get rid of the rest of the fluid.

Paul and family came by to see us in the hospital and take Kaylee back with them to spend the night with Anastasia. A few minutes after they got there Sam and Tia Silvey brought our other kids by to see us and the baby. Unfortunately they could only view her through the window of the NICU (somehow we're missing that picture too, but I know someone took a picture of that group). Our kids were so disappointed that they didn't get to hold her when they came, but they weren't downhearted for too long I'm sure. They had lots of fun at Granny and Papa's. (Thanks Sam and Tia!)

The tube coming out of her mouth went into her lungs to help drain the fluid.

I hated peeling those stickers off when we got home.

It was hard not having her in the room with us so we went to the NICU to visit her often. We were both relieved when they finally took the c-pap machine off and we could hold her.

You can see all the stuff taped onto her left hand. She had wires dangling everywhere. We had to be careful when we were holding her so we didn't unplug anything.

(I think she looks just like Sara in this picture.)

We didn't know until 7pm on the 27th that we were for sure going to be able to take her home with us. They took her off the c-pap that morning and brought her to our room about lunchtime since her oxygen was staying high enough. They checked her again at 3pm and 7pm before giving us the go ahead to take her home with us. We were both very relieved and ready to be home and really snuggle our baby.