Food Finally

After an afternoon review with the doctor, we were told that they were going to take the tube out of McKenna's mouth but she still wasn't going to get food. Our hearts broke at the thought of yet ANOTHER day of her not eating and feeling hunger pains.

Then, this evening we went in and one of our favorite nurses, Ms Valorie, told us that McKenna was sucking the Binky so hard she told the doctor that McKenna needed food. The doctor listened. Yes, we were amazed too.

They are starting her out at only 3 ml (1/10 oz) of breast milk every six hours. If she tolerates this for a while they will switch it to every three hours most likely before increasing the quantity. Even thought it's not a lot of food, it's something and we are so grateful!!!

We were disappointed to see she is down to 2 lb 4 oz, meaning she lost 4 oz over night. Hopefully getting back on breast milk, even though it's not much, will help her gain back some weight. She is now 15" long.

Keaton is doing good today. He was alert and looking around throughout our visit and I got to read him The Velveteen Rabbit. If you haven't read it, I am going to go ahead and suggest ahead of time you request a short version of the children's book. Man is it long! It put him back to sleep by the time we were half way through.

Keaton is still at 3 lb 5 oz and once again has shrank...measured in at 16 1/4" now. Curious to see how much shorter he will get or when he will start growing according to the nurses by the time he leaves NICU.