We also had a not so hot experience last night when trying to have her attempt an oral feed. But we tried again today when she was calm, awake, and sucking on her pacifier and SUCCESS! This feels like a huge weight off my shoulders because the first real feed is out of the way. Now we just work on increasing those throughout the day. When she reaches her full feed level tomorrow, they will begin to transition from continuous feeds to every 2 hours, then every 3 hours. Oral feeds should really take off during this time because this little peanut seems to not like being hungry from being on continuous feeds for so long so she gets really eager to feed.
We started some antibiotics today because her incision site from last week is starting to look a bit angry and swollen. After two doses this seems to be looking a little less red so that's good. We pray it's not the MRSA that got into her since that could be very serious. Hopefully it will take care of whatever is festering in there. This also seemed to lower her heart rate some from the beginning of the day to the end so that seems to show that it's working. She also had her whole series of immunizations this week so that was probably contributing to her crankiness and elevated heart rates. I'm happy with where things have been going and am hoping to see more progress in the right direction through the week.
Aside from being thankful for the progress Zoey is making, I'm also thankful for the gorgeous weather today. I walked to the hospital this morning without a coat and told Zoey this was the kind of weather I've been waiting for and we'd be taking lots of walks when she comes home! My parents came to visit today and said the same thing! They loved looking at her for the first time without anything on her face and she was pretty comedic today. I can't wait til she's older if she's already this funny now!
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