Four Weeks!

It's official, Grace is now 4 weeks old. She now weighs 3 lbs, 13 oz and looks much healthier. The head ultrasound shows no significant change in ventricle size. Her cardiac echo still shows the PDA. She is a little "touchy" on the vent, meaning that she tends to decrease her oxygen saturation easily if moved or irritated. This may be due to the PDA, and we suspect that they may want to clip it this week. They are trying fluid restriction to hope that it will close on its own, but it looks as if it may not happen. We should know more tomorrow, but neither Deb nor I are excited about Grace undergoing her first operation.
Sorry for the editorial yesterday. I am off my soapbox now and back to talking about the subject of this blog, Grace.