Just on the way back from the hospital now. Lucy's blood pH wasn't fantastic this morning (higher than normal acidity), which indicates that one of two things is going on: sepsis or low hemoglobin. Her subsequent CRP showed it was likely the former, but rather than wait 24 hours for the more indicative blood culture results to arrive, it was deemed best to treat Lucy for both problems early on. Therefore, this afternoon our little one's started a fresh course of general antibiotics and had her first blood transfusion. 

Luckily she's coped with these new developments very well, remaining well behaved and maintaining good oxygen sats. The only slight downer (so far in this ep, touch wood) is that her feeds will have to take a back seat for the next day or two - a bugger because she just got back to her birth weight this morning. But that's the roller coaster we'll be on for the foreseeable future, highs and lows will be part and parcel.

If I get my head around it, we'll talk about interesting things such as SIPPV, CPAP and FiO2 tomorrow. And here I was thinking those Cadiopulmonary Science units I did in second year uni would never have any real life relevance for me...