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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Danika went to her first Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game! They played the Mets and the D'backs won 6 to 3!!! We sat right next to the pool, but there were no home run balls hit our way.     
:( Danny would have been ready to catch one! When we walked into the stadium, someone was standing there in a huge Randy Johnson costume taking pics with people, so dad took little D over to get her pic taken. :) It was also Justin Upton bobblehead day, so Danika got to play with the bobblehead and one of the first things she did with it was take it's head off! Good thing the head is easy to put back on! She did pretty good at the game.....there was so much going on and so many different people sitting around us playing with Danika. We brought her diaper bag in, but somehow we forgot her milk in the car, so Danny had to walk ALL the way back to the car during the 4th inning to get her milk! Good times!!!!:)

















Thursday, July 26, 2012

Daddy put the bouncer together for the little one yesterday! She looks a little to small in it. She likes it for about 15 min! Then she needs a break!













Daddy and little D hanging out!



Bath time!!!!! She likes bath time until she has to get out, then she's cold and mad!!!



Danika eating with Mommy and Melissa at Red Robin!




Aunt Kelly and cousins came over for dinner!!! :)


Jazelle holding her cousin Danika 

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

First time I've heard her laugh so much! She thinks daddy is pretty funny!!!!!!



Watching a little t.v. right before bed! She loves the movie "Despicable Me"! She smiles at the minions. lol

 Cute little flower socks that RoseAna and Joy got her! :)


A friend of Joy's made her this super cute outfit and Melissa came over and took pictures of her in it!!!! She kept trying to put the pink and black things in her mouth!





Thursday, July 19, 2012

She did it!!!! She finally figured out how to roll over!!!! :) Mamma and the little one had a good day today! We went shopping, and made cupcakes! And mamma finally got little D rolling over on video!!! :)













Monday, July 16, 2012

She's trying to roll over! First it's fun for her......she plays for a little bit......try's again.....(This is the 13th video I shot hoping I could catch her rolling over)


Now she's getting a little annoyed.....she's tryed over and over and over with no success (video #22)......she even try's to use the toy to help her over!




Now she's mad!!!!! (video #26) She just can't get over! She's so close!!!! So we took a break and we'll try again tomorrow! :)


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Today was Danika's 2nd barium swallow test. She is ready to be a good patient with her little baby hospital gown on! She did sooooooo good today! She passed the test with flying colors! Before we started the test I told them that she needs to keep drinking thinner and thinner liquids until she aspirates into her lungs. Her pulmonologist wants to know what she aspirates on, not just what she penetrates on. Dr. Rao says that everyone has penetration. It's aspiration that we should be worried about.

Penetration is when instead of the barium going from the mouth down into the esophagus like it's suppose to, it enters the opening to the trachea (on it's way to the lungs) but comes back up and continues to make it's way down the esophagus to the stomach.  

Aspiration is when the barium goes from the mouth, passes the trachea and into the top portion of the lungs. Usually the bodies response to this is to start coughing it up to get it out of the lungs and back down the esophagus. You can get pneumonia from aspiration.

During Danika's test, she had one episode of "deep penetration", but it never got any worse than that. They even let her drink for a while so that she could get fatigued and lazy and then see if they could see aspiration. She never aspirated!!! So she no longer has to be on a nectar think consistency! She can be on ultra-thin liquids which is the consistency of breast milk. They want us to wean her down slowly for a period of 3 days to 1 week to get her use to the ultra-thin consistency.

The speech therapist asked how long Danika was intubated when she was born. I told her "2 days" and she was amazed! She said Danika is a little rock star! She also suggested that we see a GI specialist because of how much Danika spits up/vomits. It's so hard to feed her.

As most of you know, her pulmonologist office called yesterday and said that she passed her respiratory test!!! She no longer has to be on oxygen!!!!! They said to keep a close eye on her and if she turns blue to take her to the emergency room.  This is all the stuff that Home Health came and picked up today!!!! Good riddance!!!!



 This is Danika asleep in her new crib! No more bassinet!!!
 This is Danika 30 min later! Awake! All over the place!!!