Supplies & Equipment

This my friends, is the shipment of supplies we get each month to sustain our daughters life!

And the following is the equipment we use on a daily basis!

This is called a pulse oximeter or pulse ox. It's kinda a love hate relationship. I love it because it tells me what Emmalynn's oxygen is at along with her heart rate. The hate part is when these numbers dip when I am fast asleep and I wake up in a panic and my adrenaline is going, only to see her numbers bounced right back. It does give me peace of mind at all times and I'm sure most new moms would be jealous because I don't feel the need to think, "is she breathing". I can see exactly what her sats are at!

I love this picture I took a while back. See we wrap the pulse ox on her foot and we rotate it every 3 hours so the light doesn't burn her skin. I had to snap a picture when I saw the cord between her toes!

This machine is pretty important around here. It's her converter. It converts our air into the oxygen she needs. Right now she's at 1 liter but really it's just what they call a blow by so we don't even know what she's really getting. She only requires it when she is sleeping because she starts to get a little lazy.

And this machine hooks up to the converter and it's what makes her humidity. The humidity keeps her trach secretions from getting too dry.

This is the suction machine we use for secretions. Since Emmalynn doesn't breathe through her mouth or nose yet, everything comes through the trach and she's not quite old enough or strong enough to cough or clear her throat. So we use this VERY noisy machine. It startles her every time I turn it on.

This is the feeding pump. It hooks up to her belly since she has oral aversions and won't nurse or take much from a bottle. She gets a certain amount, based on weight, slow dripped over an hour.

This is a nebulizer we use twice a day to give Emmalynn breathing treatments for her little lungs since she has chronic lung disease due to being born so early.