Drops

So Miss Avery Kate is up to 2 lbs 1 oz! They have increased her to 24 cal fortifier as of yesterday and as of today she is being fed 5.1 ccs per hour. She has been getting eye drops for her slight eye infection and it was looking better today. It never looked bad just a little runny at times.


Today she had several heart rate drops which were rather unsettling. They did blood work on her and her blood count looks good. She doesn't have an infection and her theoflin levels were fine. The theoflin level basically tells them if medicine they are giving her for helping with her drops is at a level that should be working and it is. We talked to her night nurse and she said she hadn't had any drops since she had been there, which has only been 2 hours. So we will be eager to call in the morning and see how she did through the night. Her nurse said she made a pretty large diaper, first of the day, and that can cause heart rate drops if she was having a hard time while working on that. I am kind of skeptical that this was the cause since I was there fairly early this morning and again early evening and I would hope it wouldn't take her that long to work on a diaper and that it would cause that many drops. I guess we will find out in the morning if that was the case or not. If it was the case then she won't have many drops during the night. If it wasn't?


On a good note they did the 3rd brain scan a few days ago and it came back in normal range. It's common for premature babies to have brain bleeds and they tend to watch for this pretty closely. Avery has come back good on all 3 of her scans.