Moving Again

Today was a pretty good day for Emma.  She had a couple of teeny tiny bowel movements, and due to that the doctors and nurses decided to start feeding her again.  Not only that, but they upped the amount like they had previously discussed.  Now instead of 1ml of milk at a time, she's receiving 2ml of milk.  For a little perspective, there are 30ml in one ounce, so in 2 days she gets a little over an ounce.  Eden had an ounce over her first 2 feedings of her life.  Now Emma is getting that amount over 2 days.  Nonetheless, it is still progress and we are very excited about it.  We just hope that she tolerates the increase as well as she can.

She is also handling the nasal cannula as opposed to the CPAP pretty well, but she has had a couple spells where she drops her heart rate a little bit.  She hasn't had many, and she hasn't dropped it to any dangerous level.  But this is telling the doctors that she still needs a little help, so they have decided to increase her caffeine intake.  She's been getting a small dose of caffeine every afternoon and it's not uncommon at all for them to have to increase it when they take away the CPAP.  And like I said before, just because the CPAP is currently gone does not necessarily mean it is gone for good.  So they are going to see how she responds to the caffeine and go from there.  If they have to put her back on the CPAP they will.  Hopefully they don't, but if they do, they do.

Mommy got a chance to hold her again today.  Little Emma was cozy and nuzzled in for a good long while.  She was there for about 2 hours!  I think both Mommy and Emma were pretty happy with this time together.  They both look pretty cozy, don't you think?  It's really neat the way the nurses get her all prepared and then place her directly on your skin the way they do.  Emma seems to really love it.  According to the doctors and nurses it is very helpful for her development.  We have been encouraged to do this every day.  Once she is a little bit bigger they will probably encourage us to do it more than once a day but for now they still only want to move her once every day.

That's about all the updates we received today.  We are very pleased with how Emma did today.  She's a good girl!  Goodnight everyone.