Yeah, another great day!! Zoe was on room air all day with the help of a little pressure from CPAP. With allluck, tomorrow we should go down to pressure 4 for a day or so and then on to a regular nasal canula. She is breathing great on her own. In fact when they change her CPAP out she is not connected to any oxygen for a few minutes and she does just fine (for a fewmintutes anyways). Zoe's morphine drip was discontinued today, so now she only gets a morphine IV every 6 hours. So far so good, she has definetely been a bit more fussy today than usual, not in any pain, just more awake and more annoyed by the tube down her throat and the whole CPAP contraption. She was awake almost all day so I was able to hold her for about 3 hours in the afternoon and a couple hours this evening. She always seems to enjoy being held so much and calms down pretty quickly (until she gets a wet diaper- she hates that)!! She started sucking on a passifier a bit today, she seems to enjoy it and it stops her crying, but we will have to work on the sucking part, she more pushes at it and chews on it. Physical Therapy came by today and started working with Zoe on relaxing her muscles in her neck, hamstrings and back. They were very happy with how strong she is and how much she kicks around but she needs to work at being able to relax her back shoulder muscles so she can bring her hands to center more easily. Zoe and I played with a bunch of her toys today, she seems to love it and can really easily visually track things. I'm still amazed by how strong she has gotten in theh 12 days since surgery, she's like a brand new girl. She also got to put her first piece of clothing on today. Melissa, one of the nurses, found a little pink snuggler for her to wear until Jason and I get some clothes down here for her. I can't wait for the red sparkly shoes!!
