NICU Day 74 ~ (February 19th)

While we would not term today as "rough", it certainly was not an "easy" day in the NICU.  When we called and checked on Noelle this morning, they had stopped her feeds due to the amount of residual she'd had through the night (although I strongly felt a lot of this was possibly positional....I had requested for her to be put on her tummy through the night but it did not happen).  She also had jumped up 70 grams (obviously due to all the IV fluids), and her blood sugar had jumped up a lot from where it had been previously.  We went straight to the hospital for rounds so that we could talk to the doctor ourselves regarding her care.  Thankfully, her doctor was on top of things and already prescribing what we were requesting when we walked in the door today.  Still, things have still not gone quite as we had hoped.  The one main positive thing from today was that she was extubated and put back on the nasal cannula.  She definitely seems more comfortable having the tube out of her throat, and it was nice to see her take another step toward getting back to her "baseline" of where she was before she was transferred.  They still have not started her feeds as of yet,and obviously this has a domino effect.  Our prayer is that sometime tonight, she will be able to start back on her feeds and decreasing on the IV fluids and just getting back to normal.  Please pray for wisdom and patience for us as well.  Due to her first few days after being transferred and events that happened, we have definitely become more assertive regarding her care and it is difficult at times to know how hard to push for what we feel she needs or how much to trust the medical staff in these situations since they just do not know her as we do.  One step at a time, we hope she continues to recover from the surgery and get back to her normal self and start growing again.  I hope we have even better news to report tomorrow!!