Danielle has to be a happy little girl, she is getting feedings restarted today! Usually when preemies are on dopamine, the medication, they do not like to have feedings going. But they lowered the amt of dopamine she is getting and with this very low dose the doctor felt good about restarting her feeds. So she is getting 1.6 cc's every 6 hours so hopefully she eats it all and she can have more!
This morning she was a little ancy and dropping her o2's a bit, so we repositioned her onto her side and turned her head and got her all tucked in, this worked wonderfully! We turned off all of the lights and closed the door and curtain so it was nice and quiet and she loved it. She was being great and breathing even better. The doctor reiterated to today's nurse again this morning how LOW stimulation she likes and quiet surroundings. I had a long discussion with the doctor and it was very productive. So now hopefully every nurse that has Danielle will be informed even more thorough about what she likes and clearly doesn't like. This will help her so much developmentally also.
I took a few pics of the part of her room where her isolet is so you can see how her bed is covered up. She really likes it too. Nice and dark and quiet!
She got another blood transfusion today, not that big of a deal. But both of her IV's overnight had come out so sadly today they had to put the IV in her head. Dylan had this too and it is horrible to look at because you feel so bad, but it is much better then them poking her arms a ton to try and get a good IV site. So this today was used for the transfusion and then after that was done it is used for Lipids, which is the 'fatty' nutrition she gets. Then I believe the dopamine goes thru her pick line.
So, nice quiet, non exciting day. That is what we like, we pray for lots of those non exciting days.~
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