Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Almost there


Sophia feeds continue to climb. She is now at 24ml/hr and is only 3ml/hr away from full feeds. She should be there by tomorrow evening. Once at full feeds they will start consolidating feeds into feeding periods. She will have feeds 2hours on then 1 hour off then progress to 1 hour on and two hours off. This will challenge her tummy with larger volumes. Now that she is at 24ml/hr they have turned off her extra fluids that flowed through her pic line. These fluids were the TPN and lipids. The doctors have also reduced her Adavan that has been used to help keep her calm while transitioning off of her pain meds. Hopefully that will be completely gone soon as well.


The Occupational therapist stopped by and looked at Sophia's hands and wrists. She determined that Sophia needed bigger longer braces to help support Sophia's wrists in a more neutral position. You can see in the picture that she holds her hands a little differently, the braces are working to correct that.


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