Both Hazel and Jude had great days today. They were both on lower oxygen settings than we've seen them in a long time (or ever!). Hazel was on "room air" almost all day with the lowest flow possible. Next step, no oxygen which equals no tape on her face! My goal for her is next Tuesday. We'll see what her goal is and what the doctors think.
Jude had his flow lowered again today to 4 and was not requiring anymore oxygen than he was when he was at 4.5 liters. That's great! Usually, as the flow is lowered, the O2 goes up for a bit. Then the O2 gets lowered, the flow gets lowered again, and the cycle continues. Jude's schedule and the OT's schedule don't seem to be matching up. The OT stops by frequently, but Jude is either sleeping or agitated. We'll try again tomorrow. She wants to work on oral stimulation with him as his feeding begins. We gave him a pep talk tonight and told him that he needs to be awake and content at 11:15 tomorrow. I hope he listens!
As for the picture in the previous post, we should really compare Hazel's 5 month picture to my 2 month picture due to her being 3 months premature, but we thought there was already a great resemblance.
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Go, babies, go! Great to hear this encouraging report, Heidi. Praying every day for Hazel and Jude.
Sometimes I kid about things, but this advice is sincere. Very young children can sense that you may have a lack of confidence, so always act and talk with them as if you are confident and sometimes you can fool them and they will respond appropriately. In other words, if you want them to behave, act like it is important for them to do it and you are confident that they will do it. This actually normally works until they figure out that they actually have more control over what happens to them than you do, which for some children takes them until they are in their teens. Don’t worry when that happens, however, because by that time you will have instilled in them that it is important to respect their elders and particularly important that they obey their parents. It’s never too early for the parents to start expecting the correct response and for the children to practice giving the expected response. So talk with confidence and expect the appropriate behavior even now. This talking to them early on is particularly good for them and you as practice and your children’s verbal test scores on the SAT will be higher too if you don’t use baby talk but practice for the real thing now. (This statement about higher test scores is not based on any scientific research.) However, when they are very young they also know that they can get anything they want by just crying. That works for them until you get to their other senses and distract them from using that crying strategy.
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