She had quite a sluggish start with fairly bad blood gas results for the first 2 hours, but had good stats other than that, so the Doctor's advised that she had one last hour to improve her gas results or they would put her back on the ventilator.
Clearly inheriting someone's stubborn side (ahem!), Lilian decided she was not having the tube back in her lungs any time soon and by the time Mummy went to see Lilian and Jacob this afternoon she had spent 6 hours on CPAP and was only using 61% oxygen (compared to 100% the first time she tried CPAP). I couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised! So proud of Lilian!
The Consultant had also suggested that Jacob may be ready for his first post-op go at CPAP. As she didn't want to overwhelm the nurses (and me) with having both Baby D's giving CPAP a try at the same time; it was suggested that Jacob start on CPAP tomorrow if he remains stable over night.
Not wanting to miss out on any attention, Jacob has been reducing his oxygen and pressure needs throughout the day (I learnt that the medical equipment beeps at very good readings as well as low readings!).
Jacob seems to be able to have more normal bowel movements now (as normal as they can be when you have a stoma) so he has had a bag put over his Stoma and Fistulla to collect any waste. This should help to keep everything away from his wound, allow the Nurses to see exactly what he is passing, and hopefully, make him easier to clean come nappy-changes!
Evening update:
Lilian has been on CPAP for 12 hours now and is down to around 55% oxygen so she is doing fab!
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| Lilian with her new kit on for CPAP |
Jacob is looking really good too so he is on course to have his morphine stopped at 6am and then go onto CPAP.
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| Jacob has found his mouth.....but there's a tube in it! |
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