Lyra is progressing steadily. She's beginning to learn how to feed from a bottle. Breast feeding may end up being too work intensive for her, but yesterday she managed to take about a third of her milk from a bottle. The therapists who are helping us (and her) are impressed with her stamina and getting her to take more seems to be a reflux problem and not because she gets too tired. When I was feeding her she got to a point where she just didn't want any milk coming out of the bottle; still wanted to suck, but didn't want to swallow anything. We're confidant that this will improve, maybe greatly improve, once she's home.
Speaking of going home, it may happen this week or maybe over the weekend. It's definately looking like we're going to be dealing with a feeding tube and possibly some oxygen issues. Her oxygen saturation is usually pretty good, but when she's completely asleep it tends to fall below a specific threshold. She's still on a tiny amount of oxygen, and from what everyone says it's almost nothing, but she still seems to need that tiny amount. With all of that being said, if these are our major problems we have to deal with, I'll take them.
Posted by Tim at March 3, 2004 10:13 AM