Thursday, August 25, 2005

They increased Hailey's feeds from 36cc's to 45cc's. I arrived at 8am and she took her first bottle with no desats at all so we decided to try to give her another bottle at 11am, again no problems. At her 2pm, she only drank half and then fell asleep so the rest was given through her tube and at her 5pm she had a brady and desat, this was her first full day of bottles and we just think she was tired out so the later in the day the sloppier she became. Tonight we took our well-baby class, every parent in the NICU has to take it before discharge and in the class we were able to use Hailey as a model and gave her another bath which was nice. More and more there is talk of discharge. From talking to the nurse today, it sounds like the goal is to get her taking all her feeds by bottle, without desats and to continue the weight gain. Once that is accomplished, instead of feeding her on schedule they will make it more like home and only feed when she is hungry. After that we should be able to go home. They told us to finish preparing stuff this weekend so we do not have to rush around next week when the final word is out. Sounds like my parents might come down Monday if all is going well! I can't wait to see them and for Hailey to come home!!! We were so involved in the bath we didn't get to weigh her tonight so I should have that update tomorrow. Oh, and continue to pray for her poop. They had to give her a glycerin today. Some nurses say it is normal for breastfed babies not to poop everyday, but in the NICU they like a poop every 24hrs. Not sure how that will effect our going home, but tonight they said we can always talk to our pediatrician and get glycerin over the counter. They said some babies need glycerin in the early months of their lives. We will meet to "interview" our pediatrician tomorrow and hopefully we will like him because time is short to pick one!