We stay glued to this screen. The nurses all say check your baby first when anything drops or seems not quite right, but Lordy, you hear a beep from this screen and it sends you in all sorts of different directions emotionally. The top green number is her heart rate, the white is her respiratory rate and the blue is her oxygen levels. We have been told to really only look at the green and the blue. The white can be all over the place pending on if they are moving around and what not. We like the blue number to stay in the 90s. High 90s is ideal, but as long as shes around there we are good. If it dips below, it will start beeping. This might mean Eleanor got super comfy or forgot to breathe (common in preemies), but when this happens and she can't recover on her own (go back up to the 90s), it's called a de-sat or a "brady". We don't like Bradys. We know they are super common in the NICU, but they are also super stressful to us parents.
This screen relays so much information to us about our baby girl and how she is doing, feeling, acting, is she too hot? too cold?, etc. Technology sure has come a long way.
Once again, we are so thankful for the doctors and nurses that are constantly monitoring her stats as well as her helicopter parents who , like I said before, stay pretty glued to this screen :)
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