Jonah got to move out of his NICU warmer bed into a big boy crib! The warmer is used when the baby needs extra heat to maintain their body temperature or are unstable and have lots of wires. Since neither of those pertain to Jonah anymore, our nurse Jess (we LOVE Jess!) moved him into a big boy crib! We're still working on weaning down the oxygen needs. They work by lowering the flow of oxygen delivered to him and how much oxygen is in the mix. For instance, here I believe Jonah was on 2 liters at 30% oxygen. 21% is how much oxygen there is in room air, so you get an idea of how much assistance your baby is using. They usually start them out on high settings and then wean them down every few hours if their oxygen saturations are still good. A special team called respiratory does this while the baby is on the ventilator, but the nurse is more in charge once they move to a nasal cannula (at our hospital CHOW, this may be different at your hospital) with occasional guidance from pulmonary.
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