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| Helena Grace Lucht Hospital Pictures |
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| Helena's birth announcement Helena's Hospital Pics Helena's Homecoming Helena at age 3 months Helena at age 6 months Why Was Helena Premature? ...FAQs |
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| Following are more pictures taken during Helena's stay in the hospital from her birth date, Feb. 21, thru March 25th when she finally came home. Helena was born 2 months premature at 3lbs and 3oz and 15 1/2" long. As of April 3rd she was at 4lbs and 10oz and is 17 1/2" long. She continued to progress wonderfully throughout her 34-day hospital stay with no health problems. |
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| Lucht Family Home Page Holidays 2003 Feb-March 2003-Helena's First Birthday! Holidays 2002 Autumn 2002 Ethan's Pages Why Was Helena Premature? ...FAQs Kristiana Keeler & Family (Joia's Sister) Learning Hope (Joia's Mom) |
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| (Left) Only moments old, Helena is attached to heart and respiration monitors on Feb. 21. As Josh chased after Helena to take these early pictures, Joia was still in surgery. Joia would not see Helena for another 24 hours after these pictures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (Right) Helena is now a few hours old and lies within an oxygen hood. This offers her air with a higher concentration of oxygen (30%) than room air (21%). It is similar in function to the oxygen mask paramedics use on adults. Helena remained under the oxygen hood for less than 2 days thanks to her strong lungs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Once Helena was removed from the Oxygen hood when she was 2 days old, we were able to hold her for the first time. Here is Josh's first time holding Helena | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Joia's first time holding Helena. Because both Joia and Helena were hooked up to machines and couldn't be brought together, Joia didn't even get to see Helena until she was 1 day old and Joia was disconnected from her IV's. Helena was 2 days old when first held. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taken March 9th, this pictures shows the feeding tube Helena had inserted through her nose on 2/24/02. She was fed thru the feeding tube until a week before her 3/25 release. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In spite of her size, Helena has always been very responsive and alert. She is shown here on 3/9/02 at 2 weeks old. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||