Feeds and fun

Sophia had another good day. They have upped her g-tube feeds again to 2 ml per hour and will increase them by 1 ml every 12 hours. She will also get to start working with a bottle with the therapists. They will be able to give her the amount of feeds orally that she is getting via g-tube. So if her feeds are up to 2ml per hour on the g-tube. They can try to get her to eat 2 ml by bottle. As the g-tube feeds increase so will the bottle feeds, that is if she will take them orally. Earlier on I had spoken about oral aversions. Since birth Sophia's mouth had been messed with she might have problems taking the bottle, and we have also learned that some babies never take a bottle due to the aversions. We are really hopeful since she is sucking on a pacifier from time to time that she will eventually take to the bottle and grow out of the g-tube feedings.

Today Liam and maw maw stopped up to visit Sophia. There was a procedure on another patient so they just got to say hello and we had to leave, so we decided to go to the Cincinnati Museum Center. Now I am not a museum buff but this place was really neat. We spent around 5 hours there. The lower level was a children's museum it was so cool in there that Adults would even think it was fun. There was a large crane that you filled it's bucket with rubber rocks and put them in a dump truck, a Grocery store, a diner, a ball area (but not your typical pit), a huge water table and a large forest area that he could climb around in just to name a few. The Cincinnati history museum had a huge train diorama of Cincinnati that Liam adored. The natural history museum had a cave and ice cave to walk through. The cave really felt like an actual cave! All three Museums were in the old Art Deco Train station which made it extra cool.