His jaundice levels are going the wrong way again. His liver is taking awhile to process things.
They went up on his milk to 9ml/ hour continuous feed during the day and are starting 11ml tonight. He is totally off of the intravenous nutrients! This will be very good for his liver and other organs. There is some possible bad news about his feeding, though. He may be sort of lactose intolerant for the time being. They are checking that out and will put him on soy formula if he is. This would just be a short term thing if he had to do that. Hopefully towards the end of his stay at the NICU, he would get breast milk again.
Praying for:
- Kidneys to function better
- Lungs to function better
- Liver to function better
- Bones to grow stronger
- Adrenal glands to work correctly
- No long term side effects from steroids
- Infections to stay away
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| Trying to pull my air tube out |
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| I can't hear you |
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| I'm mad |
I'll bet Owen will be glad when he gets home, and people quit tinkering with him! He and PJ may decide to run away, it things don't start looking up!
ReplyDeleteI'm so proud of you, Eric and Amy, for all the patience you have shone!
Love you
Mamaw
Seems like little Owen just can't catch a break!! Hopefully he isn't lactose intolerant, but I've heard of it happening with other people who had full-term babies too....even to mom's milk :(. Sounds like the people in NICU have dealt with it before, so guess it isn't terribly uncommon. Glad to hear his lungs are looking good and that he is totally off of intravenous nutrients!! Hope things are back to "normal" after the tough day that you all had on Monday.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are doing a great job!!! I'm very impressed with your changing diapers, bathing, etc.!! Hope to see you soon.
Love,
Donna