A stable day

Jessica had another stable night although the nurses reported that she hadn’t really wanted to sleep very much and so consequently we had an overtired and very grumpy Jessica throughout most of the day! Despite her grumpiness, she was starting to be a little more like her usual self and was more interested in her toys, playing with her dummy and with the lights that the nurses put around her cot to amuse her.

Her oxygen saturation levels have remained on the low side throughout the day and she is still breathing fairly rapidly but as things have been stable, the team decided just to observe for today and to do another chest X-ray tomorrow (particularly as she has had quite a lot of chest X-rays in the last couple of days). Her lungs both sound like there is good air entry and so the extra work with breathing may just be due to the paraflu virus.

We had some more time with her out of the cot for cuddles this afternoon which has been lovely and Grandma and Grandad came to visit in the evening and had a little bit of time with Jessica before she settled down to sleep. As she had been so awake and overtired, she was given a sedative to help her get a good night’s sleep tonight.