Wednesday

Mia continues to do really well with her feedings. She is now up to 30 cc's every 3 hours, the same as 1 ounce. She continues to take all her feedings from the bottle and is doing very well with it. And she has been having a lot more "awake" time.

Mia has also been wearing a brace on her right hand because the occupational therapist was not happy with how she was bending her wrist and thumb. She does not like to wear the brace and is usually very unhappy about putting it on. (They've been rotating it on for several hours, off for several hours.) Well, today she graduated from wearing her brace and now only has a band to keep her thumb in the correct position. This is the same type of band she has on her left hand also. She doesn't mind the band so much, so we were very happy that she no longer needs the brace.

***in the picture she has the brace on her right hand and the blue band on her left hand, Mia now has two blue bands***

Tuesday

Today was another good day for Mia. She is up to 24 cc's with her feedings and she is taking all of it by bottle. God is good!

On a different note, Lisa got rear-ended today on the way home from the hospital. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt aside from minor aches and pains. We took Lisa to the ER just to make sure she was ok, particularly because she had a c-section 7 weeks ago. And she is fine. The car is drivable, however it will need quite a bit of repair work, we'll see what insurance says tomorrow. We are just very grateful that Lisa is ok.

Monday

Mia has been gulping down her milk today, 18 CCs every 3 hours, all from a bottle! That is so exciting for us to watch, and makes us super optimistic about feeding her when we take her home. Also, they took out the feeding tube taped to her chin, and she is able to feed great without it! Lisa learned how to "play" with her today, pushing against her legs to provide resistance for muscles, and gently pulling on her arms. Mia really enjoys her new mobile, complete with soothing jungle sounds. ( I personally don't find being lost in a jungle soothing, but hey ,that's just me - Brad)

Sunday

Ok...point of clarification...the doctors do not test Mia's stool for sugar, the reason they knew she wasn't getting everything out of her feedings was because she was stooling too much. Since they cut her back to 12 cc's every 3 hours she has been doing much better, so they are hoping as she slowly increases, she'll be able to handle the bigger feedings.

On a different note, Brad got to feed her with a bottle twice today and she did great. It took her awhile because she's not used to being fed that way, but we are encouraged that the more she works with it the better she'll do. Lisa told Brad he's doing such a great job feeding Mia that it might become his job at home. :)

Saturday

The feeding process has definitely had its ups and downs with Mia. Today the doctors changed her feeds to only 12 cc's every 3 hours because she was still processing them too fast. They think that she'll be at 12 cc's every 3 hours for the next couple of days and then they'll slowly increase her feeds from there. The thought is that they may have increased her feeds a little too fast. Pray that she is able to process all the nutrients she needs and slowly get back to where she was before. The doctors also said that her kidney ultrasound was fine so they are no longer worried about that. She has a small kidney stone (not like an adult kidney stone) which may be linked to one of the medicines she gets every day. The doctors say the kidney stone should dissolve on its own and it won't need to be passed like an adult kidney stone.