Thursday May 8, 2008 Part II

At 2pm, Evie had eaten 1cc of milk. Ok, not really eaten, they put 1.2cc in her tummy, then sucked out anything remaining 6 hours later. I.e. she digested 1cc. Then at her 8pm check, she had eaten all 1.2 cc. Go girl!



Maggie’s arterial line in her umbilical cord was “sluggish” so they had to remove it and replace it with an IV in her right leg. They usually try to keep it in a bit longer so they can do blood gas checks and monitor their blood pressure, as well as IV stuff (that Joe refers to as Baby Gatorade – it looks about that color). So, that one line is replaced by 3 different devices, which is a little hard to see. But then again, there are benefits of having the umbilical lines out. The first being that Mom will get to hold her tiny baby soon – called kangaroo care. Nurse Ann dangled that in front of me last night after 9pm, but I was way too tired because I’d had a big night grocery shopping. I was more than willing, but not quite able. Hopefully we’ll do that in the next couple days. The second benefit is that Maggie gets to lay on her tummy.



Nurse Barbara, a traveling nurse originally from South Africa, was taking care of Evie during the night shift. She said that Evie was quite delightful – she’d taken care of her the night before – and that tonight she could have a bow in her hair. So, Nurse Barbara brought out a bag of very tiny little bows and we put a cream colored bow in Evie’s hair. Too cute!