Thursday, August 04, 2005

Well we may be graduating near the end of next week to our feed and grow location. Hailey is getting to the point where she does not need an intensive care unit so they are preparing the paperwork to send us away. Today she did well, her weight is 1590 grams, 3 lbs, 8 oz and they increased the calories in her breastmilk to 24K cal. She is tolerating the feeds well though she still on continuous feeds for now. They did check her red blood cell count last night, but they still think its within reason and are not going to transfuse. They think the increase in oxygen desats may be reflux so they started her on zantac today, they are also waiting for her caffeine level to come back to decide if they will increase that. She had a few smears on her diaper today, but did not give us a good poop until she was given glycerin. The only stipulation before we go to Mount Washington to "feed and grow" is to get the lower GI test one more time to check for the malrotation and if that comes back good they will send her away, if not we will have to go for surgery. They said that test should take place early next week. Please pray that we don't have to go for surgery! She is doing so well we hate to go backwards! We have become pretty attached to everyone in the NICU and so we are actually sad to think about leaving to a new place, but it will be graduation day and closer to when she comes home so we definitely won't complain :) Thank you all for praying us through! We need some good diaper blowouts to make a clean break :)