Over to Jacob

Both babies had a good day yesterday, and I was very pleased to see Lilian still on CPAP in the morning. She was even on an oxygen rate of around 40% first thing! She is doing so well!

Lilian all tucked in

Jacob came off his Morphine and during ward rounds it was decided that he was definitely ready to give CPAP a go. No guarantees he would stay on it, but at least we're moving forward. So at around 11:30am Jacob was extubated and got his second taste of freedom!

Jacob enjoying the freedom

Both of the little ones managed to stay on CPAP all of yesterday and are still on it today so it is looking like that is how they will remain unless (touching wood) we have a set back.

With Daddy back from being at work all week, he got to hold Jacob today for around an hour, which was a huge boost for him and it really seemed to help Jacob to become more stable on his new breathing set up.

Jacob enjoying his cuddle and gripping Daddy's finger

Lilian has also been doing well today and is continuing to be stable on the CPAP and it looks as though she just needs to concentrate on staying stable and growing.

So while things are going well and our days are filled with Kangaroo Care and the most excitement in our days involves changing dirty nappies/stoma bags; we have deiced that we will cut down on the number of updates to perhaps once every two days.