Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Well, they brought up the magic word "discharge" today. We started getting excited because she hadn't had a brady in two days and a half hour after getting excited she had two, but since she is pretty much doing well on all other levels they said they are going to plan to send us home at the end of the week on a monitor. We did have one small setback - in order to go home she needs to take all her feeds by the bottle, which hasn't been a big deal, but it also means all her meds by mouth. At her 5pm feed they gave her the meds by mouth which must not have tasted good and she coughed, choked and stopped breathing for a second. Then she was so tired out from that she couldn't finish her bottle. So now in order to get her home we have to find a way to give her the meds without gagging. I suggested giving it with more breastmilk to dilute it some. The worry is if she doesn't drink it all she won't get her meds, but I know she will at least drink 5cc's so we will try that tomorrow. My parents arrive Thursday, my dad is staying till Saturday and mom is staying for a week or two. I am hoping they both can be here for her coming home!Her weight is now 4lbs, 8oz. They did say she still needs fortifier added to the breastmilk in order to gain weight. So we will go home with that as well. Keep praying!