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No surgery for Charlie!
We finally got in touch with one of her doctors and he said that the deviation of her septum wasn't extreme and that it wasn't the main cause of her not being able to eat well. She'll have to have it corrected at some point in her life, but that is *FAR* down the road. Woo-HOO!
Right now, they're trying feeding her on demand and see if she'll eat more that way. She did take 30ml by mouth at once, which is an improvement over yesterday's 15 and 20. We've had great improvement before and then she got really congested again (that was when they had to discontinue the Afrin), but this is *good*.
The doctor was talking about teaching us to put the tube down her throat (I observed one of the nurses doing it when I was there on Saturday...it wasn't as terrible or as complicated as I'd expected. Kiddo doesn't like it much, but she accepts it with little complaining) and feeding her at home, with a visiting nurse coming every now and then to see how we're doing. We'd be up for that, as it'd mean the baby would be *here* rather than there.
Honestly, yes, there could be something more behind this. But I think there may be a posibility that she's just a very distractable eater. Her sister certainly was (hell, she still *is*). And with Charlie, they only give her a certain amount of time to finish the bottle before they go with the tube. I'm not *upset* at them for this...there are currently eighteen babies in the NICU and they just don't have time to coax her to eat, especially given how often infants eat. But, hey. I've got time. And the inclination.
This has been your Charlie report for the day. :)
We finally got in touch with one of her doctors and he said that the deviation of her septum wasn't extreme and that it wasn't the main cause of her not being able to eat well. She'll have to have it corrected at some point in her life, but that is *FAR* down the road. Woo-HOO!
Right now, they're trying feeding her on demand and see if she'll eat more that way. She did take 30ml by mouth at once, which is an improvement over yesterday's 15 and 20. We've had great improvement before and then she got really congested again (that was when they had to discontinue the Afrin), but this is *good*.
The doctor was talking about teaching us to put the tube down her throat (I observed one of the nurses doing it when I was there on Saturday...it wasn't as terrible or as complicated as I'd expected. Kiddo doesn't like it much, but she accepts it with little complaining) and feeding her at home, with a visiting nurse coming every now and then to see how we're doing. We'd be up for that, as it'd mean the baby would be *here* rather than there.
Honestly, yes, there could be something more behind this. But I think there may be a posibility that she's just a very distractable eater. Her sister certainly was (hell, she still *is*). And with Charlie, they only give her a certain amount of time to finish the bottle before they go with the tube. I'm not *upset* at them for this...there are currently eighteen babies in the NICU and they just don't have time to coax her to eat, especially given how often infants eat. But, hey. I've got time. And the inclination.
This has been your Charlie report for the day. :)