Daddy's Girl

Yesterday was a sleepy day for Annelise.  The doctors are weaning her pain and sedation medicine.  The nurse practitioner said that Annelise is doing a lot of the breathing work on her own now, so she's sleeping a lot more....like a regular newborn!   The picture was taken yesterday when Annelise was 1 week 3 days old!

How cute is our little Daddy's Girl?!?!

Today when we got to CHOP, the nurse had a present waiting for us......a poopy diaper!  VERY small amount of poop, but some poop is better then no poop!  (I can NOT believe that I just typed that sentence!  How quickly things have changed!  :-)

Anyway, the doctors are waiting for more before they start to feed her, but it means that we're well on our way to getting her fed with milk and not iv vitamins & fat.  There's a tube in her mouth now that's draining whatever is in her stomach...keeping it small so that her intestines and other abdominal organs had a chance to adjust to being all together.  Now that she's starting to poop, they'll remove that tube and put a feeding tube in it's place.  They start slow...maybe 1 teaspoon of colostrum/breast milk per feeding.  They will increase as she tolerates it.

However, she's done quite well with just iv vitamins & fat.  She's gained another 1/4 lb.  Putting her at 4 lbs. 11 oz.!!!  What a champ!  She even looks bigger.