It turns out the doctor's don't think she had NEC because she recovered so quickly that they were able to stop the antibiotics after 5 days. I guess with NEC she wouldn't have been showing signs of feeling better so soon. Alice had another x-ray yesterday to check her belly and all was looking good. With her huge weight gain earlier this week, thinks have leveled off as she had a loss the other night and then a smaller gain last night. So her weight is currently at 1780 grams (almost 4 pounds).
We had cuddles yesterday and today. She was way more alert both of these days, and about 5 minutes into the cuddle she fell into a deep, deep sleep. Which is what they are supposed to do. So that's a good sign. She started on the breast milk yesterday at 5ml every 2 hours. The feeds are being increased every other feed by 2ml until she gets up to 33ml. Once she hits 33ml per feed, then the IV will be removed.
On Monday Alice will be extubated (again). Back to the hat on the head and the mask over the nose to assist with her breathing. It's tough not seeing her face when she's on the CPAP, but it help her breathing. It was very nice to be able to see her the last week (even though she was intubated).
Alice had her 6 week head ultrasound and all is looking good there. The grade 2 bleed she had on the previous ultrasounds seems to have cleared itself up. There's a bit of fluid on her brain, but it's insignificant, so nothing to worry about (at this time at least). And her x-ray's from earlier this week also show her lungs look good as well.
Not too much else I can think of right now. I have heard that there are some peeps that would like to post some comments, but don't want to set up another email account (totally understand). I've set up a gmail account that you can use, please make sure to say who you are as the post will look like Alice sent it to herself.
email: alicemlink@gmail.com
password: linkmalice
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