Just eat already!!!

Max started the day on half ml per hour feeds and had worked his way up to one ml again by this afternoon when we went in for a visit. While we were there they took another large aspirate from him (9ml) so again they decided to stop his feeds for a while and they will start again some time tonight. I guess we will see tomorrow how they are going!

Blake is still on 2ml per hour continuous feeds and seems to be digesting it at this point. Yesterday he actually gained a fair bit of weight too. He now weight 2024g so he is up 112g since yesterday. He has cracked the 2kg mark and he is now heavier than his birth weight. Max weighs 1894g, up 8g since yesterday and he is also just over his birth weight now.

Max had a swab done on his eye and the results came back that the bug in it was actually one that can cause eye problems. An eye Dr was called to look at him and thankfully they don't think it has caused any problems for him. It was caught early and the IV antibiotics he was already on for the infection from the IV was also one that would cover the eye bug! They have changed him from the Chlorsig cream to some more effective eye drops though - poor little man :(

Blakes foot looks a little less sore today and his heart rate seems to have settled down. It looks like he may not be getting an infection after all so that is some good news. It still looks pretty nasty though! They had a little dressing on the burn today and a splint to stop him from bending his ankle too much where the burn is.

They had tried to do the long lines on both boys again today and were not successful with either of them so I think they have decided to abandon that idea for now. They are going to stick with the peripheral drips but I noticed today that they now have one in Blakes forearm rather than the back of his hand - I guess the veins on the back of his hands have really had enough now and they just don't work any more.

Finally - the head ultrasounds that we were waiting on today have not been done yet. They forms have been written up for them and they have been requested but they just never got around to it today, so now we have to wait till next week :( It's not like the ultrasounds will change the outcome but It is still horrible to know that we have to wait even longer now before we get any sort of answers!

well, I am too tired tonight to type any more so I am off to bed. My kids have all been feral tonight and I think they are really feeling the effects of the confusion at home. Tonight they just seemed to tag team each other on the crying and tantrum front but I have to try to let it stress me. I know they are just trying to figure it all out too. We will get there in the end!

M.