Friday, August 26, 2005

Today Hailey wasn't able to even finish one bottle. When we did try she would gulp and then desat where her oxygen saturations would go really low. We think she has just been working to hard. So for all of her feeds after 12pm we have given them bolus, through the tube in her stomach. Then tomorrow at her 12pm feeding we will try the bottle once again. They say there comes a day when it all clicks and when that happens we will go home. At least these are small issues, it is just frustrating when you are so close to going home! Tonight her weight was 4lbs, 5oz. So she isn't really gaining right now, but its not surprising with all the work she is doing. We are going to only give her a bottle a couple times a day until she gets better and then we will increase slower than we did before. She was also having some reflux issues with the bolus feeds, but I suggested it was because they put it all in her stomach over only 5-10 min and it was to much so tonight they tried giving it over a half hour and she did better. Well, I am now officially on maternity leave, hoping she can come home so I can spend most of that time with her at home. Please keep the prayers coming!