August 1, 2009

Today was a great day for Brianna. She came off of her Jet ventilator and went onto a conventional ventilator. This is a step down and a good thing. This ventilator allows her to take some breaths on her own which she is doing approx 10-13 times per minute. It also makes her lungs expand and retract instead of the Jet ventilator that kept her lungs inflated the whole time. So this is more like our normal breathing. It also allows her to move more and when they say its ok I can hold her on this ventilator...I can't wait for that! I have lots of new pictures of her and you can see how much she has grown in them from when she was born....although I need to get a new usb cord so that I can hook my camera up to the computer...hopefully I can do that tomorrow.