Natalee loves bath time! She usually is wide awake during bath time, but just about slept through this whole bath. I mentioned to the nurse that she seemed so tired and fatigued during the bath and while I was holding her. She usually looks at me frequently while I hold her and kicks her legs a lot but this time she just slept and hardly moved. I even mentioned that she seemed a little pale and her oxygen saturations were dropping more frequently than normal. I was worried about her. Natalee was scheduled to have an eye exam this same evening. So what the nurses tell me the eye exams were pretty traumatic for the babies since they have to pry open their eyes with what the nurse described to me as a misshapen paperclip. The eye exam usually wares the babies out since they usually cry during it. Shortly after the eye exam Natalee's oxygen saturations went down and normally she brings them right back up. Not after this particular desaturation. So they had to give her extra oxygen with a face mask and bag to bring her saturations back up. They did blood tests and found out that she was anemic. They want her hematicrit above 30 and Natalee's was 27. So on 11/16/11 she had her fourth blood transfusion.
I'm so glad that they were able to figure it out quickly and it could be fixed with a blood transfusion. As of 11/17/11 Natalee weighs 2 pounds 14 ounces. She is getting so big! Her oxygen flow is down to 4L/min. I'm so glad she is feeling much better after her blood transfusion and is back to her normal self.
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