Info Dump

This morning's update follows the fast and furious approach. Ellie is up to 3lbs 4 oz (1480 g) now! She has had no problems with her feedings over the night. Her residuals were all low (0-3 mL). So they bumped her up to 24 mL every 3 hours delivered by the autosyringe. They also shortened the feeding time by 5 minutes. So the autosyringe delivers her milk in 30 minutes instead of 35 minutes now. She had no bradies and only 8 desats over the night (all self-resolved) and she had a stool in every diaper. But she did have 3 desats during her 8 am feeding. Kent is our nurse again today and he heard an air leak during her feeding. He fixed one of the connections in her breathing tube and she has been breathing better ever since. (Although she has had a couple self resolved desats and a brady or two since we got here this morning.) They lowered her IV rate to 1.9 mL/hour but now she's not getting the vitamins and electrolytes through the IV. She's only getting fluids, no nutrition through her IV. This is the final step before removing her PICC line! Got all that? ... Good job Ellie!