Day 24- Too Much Too Soon?

Today we thought we'd made a big jump forward and started off on a really positive note but ended on a bit of a roller coaster.

I had a call from Lisa at lunchtime letting me know some great news, the surgeons were pleased with Olivia's progress so decided that she would move up to 25ml feeds and then the amount was to rise by 5ml every 12 hours!  This was a huge step forward and almost seemed to good to be true.  The other good news was that the visiting rules have changed slightly, we can now nominate up to 4 people to visit Olivia. We both really wanted Jess (Lisa's) sister to be able to visit so our lucky St Michaels 4 are: my mum, my dad, Lisa's mum and sister.

Jess wasted no time and came straight over this afternoon to meet Olivia, she was a bit shocked with the ward and all the tiny ill babies to start with (as all people are) but quickly fell in love with Olivia.

Auntie Jess

Olivia has been unsettled today and vomited most of one feed coupled with high aspirate levels so the decision was made to reduce her feed back to 20mls.  Not great but these things happen and Olivia's nurse for tonight was going to try and get her back to 25ml feeds and up them by 5ml if she felt Olivia was ready.  There were also more dirty nappies which is great news.  I really hope that she is going to be able to tolerate the larger amounts of milk over the next few days so we can think about coming home soon.

The ward is very full now and the parents and babies are almost on top of each other, it can't be helped but adds to the stress levels!

Fingers crossed for more milk tomorrow.


James xx