Off the ventilator!

Amelia was on the ventialtor for only 4 days. so she was 28 weeks gestation when she came off. Which is pretty impressive considering she was also transferred 30 miles to a different hospital in that time. This is one of my favourite photos of her from her time in Newport. Shes got sunglasses on to protect her eyes from the phototherapy lights, for her jaundice. I think she looks pretty cool in her sunglasses!

She only ever had mild aundice and require only atop light for her incubator wice for 24 hours. Around about this time she also started taking feeds through her NG tube. Which is the thin wire you can see going into her mouth. She started of on 0.5 mls of breast milk every 2 hours. This increased pretty quickly with only one blip where she was aspiraing green. They put her from 0.5mls to 2mls in the space of 12 hours and it was oo much for her tiny tummy to handle. They stopped her feeds for 12 hours then started back on 0.5 mls increasing it by a ml every 12 hours untill she was on full feeds. I think stopping the feeds scared her,she loves her food and never aspirated again.