It's been a bit of a crazy week with our little Miss Alice. She has been doing really well with her breathing - in the fact that she's been breathing on her own (no machines) since Monday. Wow, what a huge step. It was so good that there was talk of moving her to Lion's Gate today (December 24th). So we got our hopes up and then when I went to the hospital this morning, she wasn't doing as well as she had been earlier in the week (even yesterday).
I've been going to the hospital around 9:00am and she's been wide away, almost like she's waiting for me. She's bright eyed and bushy tailed and sucking away on her soother. Today, she was sound asleep. So it seemed like something was up. Turns out throughout the night (mostly early this morning) Alice was having quite a few desats and even needed help on one of them to come out of it. So, no move today. I talked to the nurse at 3pm this afternoon and she was doing much better - no desats and Alice's energy seemed to be much better than this morning. So that's good. We'll see how her energy is tomorrow morning at 9:00am (I'll be calling the nurse as we'll opening presents with Max) and then head over tomorrow afternoon for the 3pm feed.
We did have some other success this week with the breast feeding - on Tuesday I pumped right before feeding her (so dry breast) and she was latching on and ready to suck, but there was nothing there. The fact that she got it was a good thing. So Wednesday morning I pumped at home then when it was time for her 9:00am feed, she latched on and sucked and this time, got some milk. Alice did really well. She did have a desat towards the end of the breast feeding, but that's okay. I think she fed for about 10 minutes. She's getting there! As Alice was so tired this morning, she had no interest in the breast (which also didn't make me feel good as this whole week she's been interested and hungry at 9:00am).
As I said above, we'll see how her energy levels are tomorrow and perhaps my Birthday next week will be a transfer to Lions Gate!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! Love Scott, Pat, Max & Alice xoxoxo
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