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The baby is not blue!!
Her bilirubin lights make all photos and videos look blue!
This video is already a bit outdated, some equipment has since been removed.
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valerie (0:07)
7 months ago 0 + -She is not blue! The light above gives a blue tint to all photos and video.
valerie (0:19)
7 months ago 0 + -That has all her medicines and IV stuff. Some stuff has already been removed though!
valerie (0:26)
7 months ago 0 + -The left computer screen records her heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen in the blood, etc.
valerie (0:33)
7 months ago 0 + -That ventilator and the black one have been removed now and replaced by one machine. Progress!
valerie (0:44)
7 months ago 0 + -This gives her nitric oxide but hopefully this machine will be gone by the end of the 17th.
valerie (1:05)
7 months ago 0 + -There's the light, to get rid of her jaundice.
valerie (1:24)
7 months ago 0 + -You can probably see the jumping of her chest. That was from the black ventilator, to keep her lungs from deflating fully.
valerie (1:56)
7 months ago 0 + -She didn't like me touching her back! I could feel her heart rate though, pretty cool.
valerie (2:22)
7 months ago 0 + -the black glasses to protect her eyes
valerie (2:46)
7 months ago 0 + -feeding tube in her nose, breathing tube in her mouth. She doesn't like it when the nurse touches them!
valerie (3:15)
7 months ago 0 + -that red thing measures, I think, oxygen in her blood.
valerie (3:46)
7 months ago 0 + -this was also her first time being on her stomach. She wasn't quite used to it yet.
valerie (4:46)
7 months ago 0 + -that beeping was coming from another baby but that's what the computer screen does when baby's body does something out of the range of levels they want.