Monday, August 01, 2005

Hailey had a hard day today. She spit up once again, and so they diagnosed her with reflux and since preemies are at high risk for some of that going into the lungs they decided to put her on continuous feeds instead of giving her feeds all at once. So where she was on 21cc's every 3 hrs, she is on 7cc's every hour and it goes in slowly over the whole hour. They are now wondering if they increased her feeds to much this past weekend and that is why this happened, so the continuous feeds are to give her belly a break and then will try again. She also had some really bad desat's today, where her oxygen saturation went really low to the point where she turned blue. She also was pretty pale and lethargic today. Those are some of the signs they are watching for to decide if she needs a transfusion. Right now her red blood cell count is low, but they also track her production of new red blood cells and that is high so they don't want to rush a transfusion, but if the destat's and other things continue they might decide to transfuse. Two steps forward, one step back ... that is what they keep telling me. They also keep saying we are really "lucky" because overall she is doing well and even with what is happening today, these are normal preemie things and are not life threatening. I know that she is "lucky" because of prayer!