Oral Intake 11.5 oz
Ugh! -Sofie's weight took a hit after her really poor intake from yesterday. Since she had only taken 1o ounces last night when we put her to bed, we decided she needed to get more calories in for the day and gave her 6 ounces of milk over an hour and a half through the NG. So she still got 16 ounces in for calories, but no extra fluid with pedialyte.
This should have allowed her to be really hungry today, just as if we'd held the pedialyte and she had eaten 16 ounces for the day. However, she didn't have a stool yesterday and didn't have one today until late afternoon, so she really wasn't very hungry today. We've got to get her adequately stooling again and rehydrated before she'll take back off with feedings. I gave her lactulose this morning and we'll give another dose tonight. We're going to give it twice a day, along with her erythromycin to help keep things moving.
I feel like we are sort of stalled out at this point. If we try to cut back on the pedialyte, she gets slightly dehydrated and becomes constipated. The constipation keeps her from eating well and it's kind of a vicious cycle. She needs a little boost to get back on track.
Since her oral intake was still not up to par today, we decided to give her another bolus night feeding to make sure her weight doesn't take a big drop again tomorrow and to try to prevent any further problems with constipation.
In other news of the Miller household, we had some pipes in our kitchen burst today. Thank goodness I was literally standing right there when it happened. I was calling Apria to find out when we'll get the sat monitor, because I hadn't heard from anyone yet, and suddenly I heard water rushing through the pipes and the kitchen started taking on water - rapidly. I ran down to the basement and water was pouring down the basement wall. I turned off the water at the pipes and it stopped. I thought it was coming from the pipes behind the dishwasher, so Kenny came home and we pulled it out and two old pipes that had been capped off had blown out at the ends. There was not supposed to be water still flowing through those pipes, so we have to investigate what's going on. It's not going to be an easy fix. Luckily it was just flow from the cold water pipe, so we still have hot water. Yay for warm showers, when it's freezing outside. Otherwise, Sofie would have been getting spongebaths for a few days from water heated on the stove.
Speaking of the sat monitor, it looks like the earliest possible time Apria could deliver it will be next week, and we'll be out of town all week for Christmas. So it looks like we will be dragging all the oxygen tanks down with us one last time. Bummer!
Sofie got to hang out with Aunt Aimee tonight for a couple of hours while we did our Christmas shopping for Sofie. We went a little overboard buying gifts for her, but we are just so thankful she's here with us to be celebrating her 1st Christmas. We have so much to be thankful for!
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What a cute Christmas card. Sofie has such a big smile in all her pics. That is too bad that you can't trial off oxygen before Christmas. Also a bummer about your water pipes, but at least it happened when you were home. You guys have had quite the 2008. Hopefully you will get a break in 2009 (I am not talking about bones either)!
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