Kinley came off the bubble CPAP this morning — a day earlier than expected. She is breathing entirely on her own now. She keeps grabbing and squeezing her now bare cheeks.
With as much time as she’s spent the past few days pulling her cannula out of her nose, sometimes stuffing it in her mouth, she’s probably been ready for a while to be free of the tubes on her face. But, protocol is to stay on CPAP until at least corrected 32 weeks because it would benefit her lungs in the long run.