To those affected by a heart defect:

Hungry Baby

January 19, 2007 at 12:20 pm by Mom & Dad

Haven had a good night last night and so far today her numbers have been holding steady.  She’s been awake most of the morning and fussing quite a bit.  They started feeding her pedialyte through her NG tube as well.  So far, she’s kept it down.  It seems that the next big obstacle is getting her diet problems fixed.  The main issue here is that she hasn’t eaten hardly anything in her 5 1/2 weeks of life so her stomach doesn’t take food too well.  They’ll be trying a couple of things to get her to respond well to getting nutrition through actual food in her belly.  Thankfully, since she is off the ventilator, we were able to hold her for a little while this morning.  Hopefully, things will keep moving in the right direction.

Posted in Recovery #1 | 1 Comment »

One Response

  1. Uncle Justin Says:

    Eat up Haven, you’ve got a lot of growing to do!

    See you soon!

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