Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Today they added calories to Hailey's feedings to help her gain weight faster. The also started her on iron to help with her blood count. The problem with that is iron constipates, so they have also increased her reglan to try to counteract that problem. In the past three days Hailey has had more episodes of her heart rate and oxygen dropping so tonight before we left we gave them consent for a blood transfusion. They have not checked her since Sunday to give her some time to recover, but because of the increase they decided to go ahead and check her counts to be safe. If her blood count is fine they are going to do a PH probe test to see if the reflux is causing the problems and they will start her on zantac, lastly they may also increase her caffeine, which stimulates her to breath. Hopefully we can have this resolved by tomorrow! Other than these few things she has had a pretty good day. The surgery fellow also stopped by to say they have been watching her and all looks good so far, but they would have more answers for us on Monday when the attending comes back from vacation. He said most likely what will happen is before she leaves the NICU they will do one more upper GI test, and if that comes back still as a "soft call", they may do one more laprascopic test - better safe than sorry. I don't have an updated weight tonight because they are not going to weigh her till her midnight diaper change. Hopefully we will have a big weight gain to report!!!