First bottle: (click on image for more pics)
First bath from Mom:
P.T. (physical therapy) feels so good:
Hope is doing great. As indicated above, Hope had her first bottle yesterday. They are introducing feeding by mouth slowly to protect her airway and lungs especially since she's had a bit of a history of respiratory distress and the continuing 'haziness' in her chest x-rays. Additionally, the coordination and effort required for feeding for a 'cardiac kid' was likened to you or me running a marathon. Perhaps a bit of exaggeration, but you get the idea. Also, Mon got to give her a bath for the first time. Hope did NOT care for it. But it seemed so right.
Right upper lobe in lung is still a bit collapsed, so they'll continue beating on it with P.T. She really likes it. She's down to 1/2 liter of O2, and she will work with the speech therapist again today on the feeding. Mon and I have a CPR class today which hopefully signals the start of a getting ready to go home process.
Thanks for checking in!
1 comment:
Wow! That's great she is getting a bottle now, she looks like she is smiling in the one picture. So glad to hear she is progressing well. She is so stong and beautiful!
Love and Prayers!
Suzanne
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