Day 21

Today MC is three weeks old. She has sure come a long way since she was born. The past few days have been a bit discouraging for me because she didn't seem to be making any progress, but today was a little better. Mary is still on oxygen because she just can't quite keep her sats up by herself. But the good news is her platelet count has been creeping up slowly over the past few days on its own, no new transfusions! Hopefully it will continue to climb up into the normal range soon. They discontinued her TPN and lipids because she has been doing much better with her feeds. She is now up to about 12mL an hour of milk continuously through her feeding tube. They will probably start bolus feedings tomorrow or the next day to see how she tolerates it and then if all goes well, they will try bottle feeding her by the weekend. Her weight is up to 5 lbs. 12 oz. and she continues to gain a little bit everyday! When she was born she weighed 6 lbs. 7 oz., but it was NOT a healthly weight at all. After losing all of the fluid on her, MC got down to 5 lbs. 4 oz. at her lowest, which is what they were guessing her 'dry' weight probably was to begin with. Dr. Miller (one of her neo-natologists) seems hopeful that she is not too far away from being discharged to come home, maybe by the end of next week or weekend. My C-section was originally scheduled for September 8th, so that's when I'm shooting for, we'll see though... keep your fingers crossed and I'll keep saying my prayers!