Quick Update

Mikaila’s feeds were bumped up to 21 mls every 3 hours. I will save you the math to avoid condemnation from my friends in teaching (apparently I’m a much better practitioner than I am a teacher) but I will say that she is up to roughly 150 calories per day. They started her at 8 calories/day a scant 33 days ago. She had no problem fully absorbing her additional calories. I failed to mention yesterday that her team added a multivitamin to her daily regimen to help her to better absorb the calcium and phosphorous.

We don’t have any news to report on her BPD. It appears that they will hold off x-raying her again if they can to minimize her exposure to radiation. They will instead monitor her vitals to ascertain her bronchial status. She had a strong day respiratory-wise. We spent 2 ½ hours with her today and she consistently satted in the 99-100% range. Her heart rate was back to it’s typical 158-162 bpm. She is still on the slightest amount of oxygen. From our perspective, she really doesn’t need it.

I kangaroo’d her today for 90 minutes. Other than requiring a bit of suction to eliminate a little congestion in her nose (she can’t blow her nose on her own), she had a very comfortable session.

They didn’t weigh her at 8 so I will have to update later with her weight. I expect a nice little bounce back