Tuesday, April 10, 2012
It's hard to believe Ivey has been in the NICU for 6 weeks now! I'm just 6 weeks away from my original due date too. She's up to 4lbs 4oz. Breastfeeding is getting better each day. Yesterday she nursed for a good 15min, then she only required half of her gavage feeding. Yesterday was the first time for me to give her a bath too. She loved it! I can't wait til her next bath day (it's every 3 days). You have to keep preemies swaddled in a blanket when they bathe. It's really different, but I did a good job! Yesterday they started weaning her off the prolacta and onto the neosure junk. By the end of the week all of her feeds will be fortified with neosure. Still not too happy about this. All I can say, if she starts spitting up and not gaining, I'm throwing a fit! I've already complained about it to the DR but he won't listen. I don't want to upset the DRs to much. At this point I just want her home ASAP. They tried to give her a bottle on sat, she only took 8m of her 38m. So not very good. Hopfully shell take more this week, when they try again. Still havent needed the blood transfusion yet, will know more in a few days.
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