Emma has shown a good amount of improvement over the last few days. They have been able to get her oxygen levels back down to levels we're used to seeing for her. The diuretic they gave her really did relieve a lot of the fluid in her body. As such, she did lose some weight. She's down to a little under 3 pounds 4 ounces, but they expect her to gain a good amount of weight again now that she's off of the diuretic. Not only that, but as they put it, it will be "real" weight since it won't be a lot of fluid.
Beyond that, there really haven't been a lot of updates in the last few days. She's been trucking along, doing what they expect of her at this point. When she moved up to Pod C, the nurse practitioner on duty that day told me that we were entering the long, boring process part of a stay in the NICU. That's the reason I haven't posted as much in the last week or so, there just hasn't been a whole lot of developments to share. But she's doing well this week, improving in every way she's supposed to improve. They want her to be more alert during feeding times, and she's definitely been that way all week.
So this whole experience is far from boring, but from a standpoint of big developments, there haven't been many recently. But hopefully things will continue on a positive trajectory.
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