Brenna's Debut

A little background for those who don't already know-& I know we are still playing catch-up with e-mails, phone calls and texts. Brenna was born last Tuesday due to an emergency c-section as Mom had pre-eclampsea and the placenta had start to tear from the uterus putting both Mom & daughter at risk. Luckily my visit to the ER was early enough that both of us are now doing fine-Brenna is in fact GREAT! She was born at 27 weeks and was immediately flown to NICU at Seton Hospital in Central Austin and will be staying here until she reaches the 40 weeks/meets the criteria for her to go home.
The biggest risk with premie babies is bleeding in the brain; in 95% of all premies there is some sort of bleeding which can be 'normal' to severe which can lead to a series of problems/disabilities down the road. While it is still early, at least we have passed this major hurdle Brenna's brain scan came back normal-no bleeding in the brain at all-so far so good, like I said she is doing GREAT!!
One of the other big obsticals that face premie's is lung development/breathing on their own, once again I am proud to report that Brenna is breathing on her own & has been for a couple of days. She will be on CPAP (what looks like her snorkle in the pictures) until she doubles her weight-2 to 3 more weeks, but she is breathing on her own and has had very few apnea (stop breathing) incidents.
So far that is where Brenna is at, we are now able to do Kangaroo Care with her which is where Mom or Dad have skin to skin contact with her and hold her for at least an hour. This is supposed to be the best thing for Brenna at the moment, but let me tell you it is the best thing in the world for Mom & Dad.
I am trying to figure out how to get the pictures & video to post to the blog, so please bare with me in the meantime-I will get it up ASAP, well as soon as I am done with Brenna because all this talk about her, I need to go hold her.