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Bottles
I know I’ve been talking about bottles a lot, but it’s a big part of what we’re doing every day. Elizabeth is still going pretty slow, but we have to build up her muscles and get her familiar with how to go about it. The OT helped Sam with some steps to help her get the feel for it. A big part of that is tipping the bottle down at appropriate intervals to get milk out of the nipple. This is a “reminder” that she needs to breathe which helps her stay focused on the task instead of getting tired out.
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More Bottles
First things first: Aspen is rocking the bottle! She’s taken her entire feed (52 ml) from the bottle from Sam our last two feeds. That’s amazing!
For Elizabeth, she continues to have bloody stools. They just won’t go away. We still haven’t stopped feeding her neocate, but it really needs to stop. However, we have started giving her a bottle with just a little formula in it with a very stiff nipple. We’re mostly working on the motions with her and she didn’t seem to like taking the binkie trainer.
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Holidays!
Another nice surprise when we got in this morning. The nurses made us pictures for each of the girls!
Updates On Aspen
I put an update on Aspen in Split Nurses, just wanted to flesh it out a bit.
As I mentioned, she had a bloody stool. This was made more frustrating by how close she was to bottle feeding. She should get back to taking food instead of an IV this afternoon assuming all goes well.
When we showed up Tuesday they were just getting her IV put in. She complained very loudly about that but they seemed to get it in pretty easily. However, after she had settled down a bit, she had an apnic event. She basically stopped breathing at that point. Her O2 levels dropped lower than I’ve seen so far. It was hard to watch and you could see the urgency that the nurses had stimulating her. She did come back, but it was probably the scariest event we’ve been witness to so far.
