Righto, so far so good once again this week. We thought we might be running into a little bit of bother earlier in the week when first the 2 bubs opposite and next to Lucy contracted colds and had to go back into their respective humidicribs. We tried to get Lucy moved as soon as we found out the second bub had caught it, but infection control policy states that that can't happen, just in case Lucy had already picked it up. So there were a few days there where we were just crossing our fingers and hoping. (Had she picked up the cold, it would've weakened her significantly and added 2 or 3 weeks on to our discharge calendar.)

Fortunately, not only did she come out of that minor scare unscathed, she's continued to thrive on the full feeds that were introduced last week. Then on Saturday night the decision was made to give Lucy a go off oxygen altogether! So now we can finally see our little bub with no leads/wires/tubes going in/out her face/torso/arms. And besides a few desat episodes overnight (totally normal given the circumstances) she's coped marvellously well.

So now the discharge plan is quite clear - Lucy has to show that she can go 48 hours without desat-ing, and then the sats monitor can come off her foot. 48 hours more with no problems and she's out the door! So absolute best case scenario is this coming Thursday, but more likely in the 3 or 4 days following. Given that we're only just past our original due date (10th of May) we've gone pretty well all things considered.