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MAC was dropping in her oxygen values in the night and also in the daytime yesterday. So they took some tests. They wanted to see if she had an infection. But nothing was wrong. They think it’s because they didn’t increase the amount of caffeine they give her daily. That’s also normal for prematures. They sometimes “forget” to breathe when they are too relaxed. Pretty frightening for us parents! So they will give her a higher level of caffeine accordingly to her new weight.
I have wondered why the new nurses around her always say that she’s very strong. Of course Neil and I think so. We think of her as the strongest baby in the world but … Today I read that babies normally are 3 months before they can move their head. But MAC has been doing that for a least one week. She does that when she gets tired of our why to tuck her in. Then she knows how to lift her head. So no wonder now that other people also see her as a strong baby. "Proud Mary keep on burnin' " (Tina Turner lyric)