Ellie continues to do well with no breathing support. We'll see how she makes it the night. I expect she will do fine through the night and through tomorrow. Last time she was taken off of breathing support she did fine for a few days and then got tired or something. Although we won't hold our breath as we're waiting to see how she does over the next few days.
After all the drama of the blood transfusion Ellie gained 20 grams today! That puts her at 3 lbs 8 oz (1600 g). We're proud of her for gaining weight even though she missed all those feedings in the last 24 hours. Now she's getting 32 mL of mom's milk every three hours (as we said before) but the feeding is spread over only 35 minutes now. They've also begun to mix in vitamins with Ellie's food. Apparently these are vitamins that they typically don't give to premature babies until they're a little older than Ellie. But they thought this would be a good time to start Ellie on them after the transfusion.
Please pray for Ellie's breathing as well as her eye exam tomorrow morning. Also pray for our care conference tomorrow discussing all aspects of Ellie's stay here at the Stormont-Vail NICU.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Every Breath You Take
Ellie continues to do well with no breathing support. We'll see how she makes it the night. I expect she will do fine through the night and through tomorrow. Last time she was taken off of breathing support she did fine for a few days and then got tired or something. Although we won't hold our breath as we're waiting to see how she does over the next few days.
After all the drama of the blood transfusion Ellie gained 20 grams today! That puts her at 3 lbs 8 oz (1600 g). We're proud of her for gaining weight even though she missed all those feedings in the last 24 hours. Now she's getting 32 mL of mom's milk every three hours (as we said before) but the feeding is spread over only 35 minutes now. They've also begun to mix in vitamins with Ellie's food. Apparently these are vitamins that they typically don't give to premature babies until they're a little older than Ellie. But they thought this would be a good time to start Ellie on them after the transfusion.
Please pray for Ellie's breathing as well as her eye exam tomorrow morning. Also pray for our care conference tomorrow discussing all aspects of Ellie's stay here at the Stormont-Vail NICU.
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What a sweetie!! I so love that outfit she's in. Glad to hear that she's doing fine without the oxygen and will continue to pray that she doesn't need it as the days progress. I hope that you both are going to try to get some extra rest tonight---same goes for my little niece Ellie. Way to go Ellie---gaining even though you weren't eating--YIPEE!! I will call tomorrow as I will be home with the kids--Garett is still throwing up (last at 8pm) and unsure how the night will go. Love you all Team Gramkow. :)
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ReplyDeleteahhh! Look at her little cheeks chunking up! She is beautiful and doing so well! We'll keep praying for ya, as it seems those prayers are being answered again and again.
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