When we arrived at CHOP today, we met up with Pop (Matt's dad) and Uncle Dave (Matt's brother) who visited with Annelise. After, we all went to lunch in the CHOP cafeteria....it's actually really good hospital food! They even have a sushi chef there each morning who makes fresh sushi.
Annelise freaked out a little when Pop and Uncle Dave peeked in after lunch to see if her eyes were open. (Sorry guys!) BUT, it was for a good reason. She had her NG (nasogastric) tube placed in her left nostril so that they could begin feeding her. It must be so uncomfortable to have that shoved down your nose into your stomach. They fed her 5 ml of colostrum/breast milk at noon. She did very well with it. Also, they took off her sedation medicine entirely. She can get "rescues" (small doses of pain and/or sedation medicine as warranted by her freak outs) each day, but the continuous infusion of sedation has been turned off. So all of these things added up to a freak out yesterday around noon.
The rest of the afternoon, she was a perfect angel for Mommy & Daddy. She had her eyes open for quite a while. She wouldn't let go of Daddy's finger either. Everytime Matt would take his finger away, she would sit there with her hand open, like she was waiting for him to put it back. She's so cute!
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