Sweet Zoë

What a difference 12 hours on your tummy makes!  Zoë’s x-ray this morning showed much improvement.  Her lungs still look opaque, but not as opaque as yesterday.  They have also reduced the number of breaths per minute.
Feeds have been increased to 4mL of breastmilk per hour and will most likely go up to 5 today or tomorrow.  YIKES!  That’s going to be hard for me to keep up with.  She’s getting all of her nutrition from breastmilk now.  They add some calories to it, but she isn’t getting the bag of nutrients and the bag of fat (I kid you not, it looked like a bag of Crisco hanging on the IV pole) in addition to the milk.   Since we saw her last night, she’s put on an ounce.  I believe the goal is around an ounce a day, so we are right on track.

Her nurse thinks she might have a little bit of reflux.  Being on her tummy puts her butt higher than her head, so they’ve tilted her bed to correct for that and the nurse is going to talk to the doctor about it this morning to see if it warrants some medicine.  Poor baby, I know exactly how you feel.  After all, you gave me heartburn for almost 6 months!

That’s all I have right now and it’s time to pump….again.  More photos posted.  You’d think you couldn’t take that many photos of someone who can’t move that much.  You’d be wrong!