Jessica has
continued to do well without the oxygen and her sats have stayed in the 80s
which is fabulous. She pulled out her
feeding tube yesterday morning and we were hoping that she would take bottles
well enough for it not to have to be replaced, but she seems to have worked out
now that it is yucky Monogen in the bottles and isn’t very willing to drink it
now so we have been giving it down the tube again. On the plus side though, she has started
having solid food again and is doing really well with this – she seems much
happier with this than she was before we went back into hospital and seems
quite willing to try new tastes. Our
lovely friend Nick popped in with a few pots of MCT-diet purees for Jessica –
thank you very much, Nick!
By
yesterday evening, Jessica was no longer on the ECG monitor and her central
line had been removed so cuddles were much easier. She was quite overtired and irritable though
and needed a little sedative to help her sleep.
A good night’s sleep seemed to help though as today she has been so much
happier and smiling a few times – definitely becoming more like her normal self
which is a joy to see – although she is definitely unimpressed by the doctors
at the moment! She did enjoy visits from
Nanny, Auntie Loraynne and cousin Keely
yesterday though and also had a lovely visit from Uncle Adrian and Auntie Julie
today.
Jessica was
moved out of high care into one of the bays this morning and is only having her
sats checked intermittently now so we are able to walk around the ward with
her. She has been happily playing with
her toys today and is quite interested in watching the other babies on the
ward. Her wound was redressed this
afternoon and is healing well, although still a little oozy at the moment.
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