Happy Day!!
Well... the exciting day has come! We're officially FOUR POUNDS! And that's not all, folks! Oh no... We're also trying life without our oxygen cannula! She's been doing SO well today off of it! Only having dips in her oxygen level when she gets all wiggly, which is totally normal. STILL not all you say? She also was giving all the signs that she wanted a bottle this morning and so the nurse humored her and tried it out. She ate 25mls of her 35ml bottle all by herself! Today is such a happy day!
She was a little too worn out and uninterested when we tried to nurse this afternoon, but as soon as she laid back in her bed she was wide awake and ready for action. I'm looking forward to the day that they let her decide when she eats. I feel like she's not always quite ready when the 3 hour mark rolls around and so it makes trying to make her eat really frustrating. If I had gotten her up 30 minutes later, she would have probably eaten pretty well. As she gets towards going home, they will start to let her decide when she eats.
I'm honestly a little shocked that they'd try this right after the few little scares we had on Sunday evening, but it seems that it was just a normal dip in blood level, etc that caused it and they don't seem terribly concerned about it. They have left the cannula sitting there next to her in case she needs a bit of oxygen. I'm also thankful that she's not exhibiting any real symptoms of the reflux that we had been seeing over the last few days.
All in all, it's been an excellent day. We're also allowed to try and feed her four times a day, twice per shift. So it really works out to every other feeding we're trying to get her to do something. Yay! Unfortunately that doesn't work out so well for Jim's schedule to try and bottle feed her, but we're getting there. (Since the bottle feed during the night shift will most likely happen at 2:30 a.m.) Soon he'll be able to hold her all the time!
She was a little too worn out and uninterested when we tried to nurse this afternoon, but as soon as she laid back in her bed she was wide awake and ready for action. I'm looking forward to the day that they let her decide when she eats. I feel like she's not always quite ready when the 3 hour mark rolls around and so it makes trying to make her eat really frustrating. If I had gotten her up 30 minutes later, she would have probably eaten pretty well. As she gets towards going home, they will start to let her decide when she eats.
I'm honestly a little shocked that they'd try this right after the few little scares we had on Sunday evening, but it seems that it was just a normal dip in blood level, etc that caused it and they don't seem terribly concerned about it. They have left the cannula sitting there next to her in case she needs a bit of oxygen. I'm also thankful that she's not exhibiting any real symptoms of the reflux that we had been seeing over the last few days.
All in all, it's been an excellent day. We're also allowed to try and feed her four times a day, twice per shift. So it really works out to every other feeding we're trying to get her to do something. Yay! Unfortunately that doesn't work out so well for Jim's schedule to try and bottle feed her, but we're getting there. (Since the bottle feed during the night shift will most likely happen at 2:30 a.m.) Soon he'll be able to hold her all the time!
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