Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Today Hailey drank two whole bottles (36cc's each), one at 8am and one at 2pm and she drank them within a half hour. They don't like them to take longer than that because that can cause them to lose to many calories and get to tired, so if its over a half hour they stop and give the rest through her tube. We did try another bottle at 8pm tonight and she was sucking away, but everytime we checked the bottle hardly anything was missing! I think something was wrong with the bottle nipple, but the nurse thought her suck wasn't strong enough - oh well. We will try again tomorrow. She also gained another ounce! She is 4lbs, 6oz! Other than that things are pretty much the same which is good. Still keeping her temp, still pooping. They were worried and almost gave her a glycerin this afternoon then she had about 4 diaper blowouts in one! So pray we can go home next week ... I'm ready to break her out of the NICU!