No CPAP! She's moving on up in the world and now has a cannula tube on her nose. Our nurse Elisha said she's been doing pretty well with it all day though she did have her oxygen bumped up a tiny bit. She is that much closer to completely independently breathing without assistance.
In other news, the neurosurgeon is thinking that Avery is ready for a shunt insertion, and this will probably end up happening Monday. At the same time, he will remove the reservoir in her head, so her giant goose egg will go away!
No updates for Wren today, other than she's still on the bottom of the growth curve and they are trying to continue to help her up by adding in some extra calories to the breastmilk she gets. Part of this is because she's so small that a lot of her calorie intake goes toward just keeping up her breathing levels, her normal functions, and keeping her small body warm, which is part of why they stay in the incubator-type isolette until they are a certain size. Wren is about 300-400 grams shy of being big enough to have her isolette be opened on the top. At current rates, she'll probably be there within a few days or at most a week.
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