Monday, July 25, 2005

I saw other preemie blogs and decided to start one on my own. I thought it would be a great for Hailey to look back on someday. I am going to publish my posts from back when she was in the NICU until we are current. Here we go! Well, I have never written on here before, but thought it might be a good time to start. We had a pretty good first week with Hailey no huge complications. No sign of infection, the results from the head ultrasounds came back fine, she was on CPAP when first born and then put on the vent, but was extubated within 24 hours. The biggest complication was moving her bowels, she was getting bilius drainage in her NG tube so they wouldn't feed her until that stopped. Near the end of the week after an upper GI and lower GI they said it was a "soft" call whether she had a malrotation which would require surgery. At the moment she is moving her bowels and there is no obstruction so we are watching and waiting. They started feeds last Friday, 3 cc's every 3 hours and upped to 6 cc's on Saturday, but Saturday night they received some bad blood gasses and she was struggling so they put her on CPAP, then re-intubated her and stopped feeds. Sunday she was pretty lethargic, but today she is recovering though she is still on the vent. She had a minor atelectasis of the left lung so they are giving that a little time. They also started feeds again today at 3 cc's, so far she is tolerating it well. Her weight today is 1440 grams - I am guessing about 3 lbs, 5 oz. As they keep telling us this is a marathon, two steps forward one step back. So we just keep praying and going forward. can't wait to hold her in our arms and squeeze her tight. I will try to keep this updated as time permits. Here is our first picture as a family!