Sorry for the delay

I have taken a bit of heat of late for my failure to post an update since Monday. Well, let's remedy that, shall we. Mikaila's oxygen requirements are fading by the day. Last night, when I returned from my long day in Pennsylvania, while holding Mikaila I took her off of oxygen for more than 90 minutes. She was in fact still satting in the mid-90's when I had to turn it on for her diaper change and bottle. She should be off of the oxygen completely in short order; perhaps in the next week or so.

We weighed Mikaila this evening; she posted a modest gain from Monday tipping the scales at roughly 6 lbs 10 ounces. Her weight gain is anything but predictible. She continues to be a voracious eater so I really have no explanation for her modest gains in the past few days.

Mikaila is on a different monitor now; one that tracks her oxygen saturation and heart rate through a probe that we attach to her foot. The chest probes are a thing of the past. Two wires down one (and one tube) to go. We have had problems with the new monitor as it often fails to pick up a signal. Mikaila will be satting in the high 90's and all of a sudden, the monitor will give off its brutally annoying sound. Fortunately, or unfortunately for us affected by the sound, it typically is indicative of nothing related to Mikaila. It simply doesn't work propperly. We get preciously little sleep as it is. We certainly don't need electronic monitors exascerbating our sleep deprivation. We're doing quite alright with that ourselves. The very strange man from the respiratory company stopped by today with a replacement cord. Let's hope the cord was the culprit.

That's about it for tonight. I really didn't sleep last night other than quick snoozes in between the monitor alarms so I might go up stairs for a quick nap. Kim will hopefully post a few pics later this evening.