2 months from today was supposed to be Little Miss Harper's birthdate - she fooled us all. Little pill.
Anywhoo - today's update.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, I had a truly bonding experience with my daughter this evening. As I was holding the little chunky monkey, she spit up on me. We are not talking a little drool just happened to dribble out of her teeny tiny little mouth, nope, it shot out of her mouth like the pea soup in The Exorcist movie. And, as an added special touch, because I was sitting up with her, after it shot out, it slowly started to roll down my chest and into my bra. Thank you, my dear little lovely.
Speaking of feedings, she is currently on 17 cc's, although she will go up to 18 later tonight. By tomorrow, she will be up to "full" feedings for her which will be 20 cc's. I think that means shortly we will get to explore the world of breastfeeding.
They were able to drop down her CPAP from 5 liters to 4 liters, which just means they are having to use less of it, which is good. Our nurse said today, that he (yes, he - makes for some awkward moments, when I'm trying to pump in the room) thought that either tomorrow or Saturday, they might take her back off the CPAP. Yay!!! Cross your fingers, knock on wood!!
Her week long round of antibiotics is done and because she is close to full feedings and won't need additional supplements, they will be taking out her IV tonight! SUPER DUPER!!
They are giving her a "lab holiday" tomorrow, so no needle pricks! They are actually doing this, because they want to wait a good full day before the take any more labs to then be able to see if the antibiotics did their job and the "infection" is gone.
Speaking of the "infection" - our nurse practitioner is thinking that it may have been a slight case of pneumonia, and that's why her lung X-rays kept coming back hazy. Thankfully, when she said that, she said "may have been" as in the past tense, because if I had known about that while it was going on, there may have been many sleepless nights. My poor little girl had pneumonia?!?!? AHHHH!!! Of course, we will never know for sure, since it has all started to clear up now, but still a little freaky.
All in all, pretty good day - except for the spit up thing, although I'm not dumb enough to think that won't ever happen again :)
You know what I really love about this? Hearing our funny Beth again. And so, so grateful that Harper continues to make ground. Thank you everyone for your prayers. Thank you God for your faithfulness. May we never, ever forget it!
ReplyDeleteGood job Harper!! Beth - this reminds me of a funny story from our time in the hospital with Ben. We had a student nurse who was male, which definitely got awkward for Tiff sometimes. The poor guy was assigned to us and one other patient exclusively, so he had to literally stand in the hall outside our room. He was so bored that he came in and checked on us about every 15 minutes for his entire 4 hour shift! I'll let Tiffany tell you the funniest parts of the story though, as that probably isn't appropriate to post here. Keep on keeping on guys! We're thinking about you all.
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