Mom and I executed our first successful diaper change Monday. That seems like a ridiculous milestone for 11 days old. But, we were thrilled. In and out without taping over any wires, alarms going off, or a mess.
We’re also getting a little more comfortable with some the premature quarks. When Kinley’s heart rate drops 50-70% for a few seconds, which it seems to do once or twice each time we kangaroo, we don’t go racing out of her room hollering for a nurse. Instead, we rub her back and give her a few seconds to come back up on her own.
We are a tad concerned that we’ve noticed her average resting heart rate increasing over the last few days. We may just be allowing ourselves to get fixated on the monitors too much. They say it’s still within range, but that they’d keep an eye on it.