Kayla may have brown eyes, although they are blue, as all newborns eyes are, she seems to have a brown or light brown hazel behind her blue hue. She has been awake a lot more and more active. She has been weaned from her TPN, which is basically food they give you through IV because she has been taking bottles really well. She does have problems with pacing her feeds and gulps them down like crazy and ends up having bradicardia, so you have to continue to take the bottle out of her mouth. She does seem eager to eat, but keeps falling asleep half-way through. She is doing well though. She currently weighs 2177grams, which is nearly 5lbs, but she has lost a little weight because she is tireing herself out so much while eating. She had an ultrasound on Tuesday for her liver, and her masses seem to have shrunk a little, and her blood work came back with lower liver enzyme levels, which is great, it means the antibiotics are working. They moved her from a "k-bed, or joey bed" which is made to hold a warming pad, and is now in a newborn cot, which is what they put them in when they are term babies, she also had her NG tube taken out of her nose, due to bottle feeding. She had a central line in her arm called a PIC line but it became inflammed and formed a fluid bubble, and also moved 2cms, so they had to take it out, and each attempt to put a new line in, but her veins keep collapsing. We were hoping to get her transfered to our local hospital (PLC) but they can't move her until she gets her new PIC line put in. Hopefully we will have her moved tomorrow, Friday at the latest.
She is doing really well. We have about 4 weeks left of hospital antibiotics, so still a bit of time.
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