Hi everyone, Lisa and I have decided that a Blog would be a great way to let all our friends and family know how our little girl is progressing in her first few tough days, weeks and months.

This is Olivia Grace Earp's story and we would love you to enjoy the highs with us and keep her in your thoughts during the lows.

I apologise for the rambling nature and somewhat thrown together appearance of the Blog but I don't have much time at the moment!

********You need to read from the bottom up with Blogs so the newest post is always at the top. Look to the right of the page and click on "Olivia's Story Post Archive" for the earlier posts***********

We are proudly supporting the Cots for Tots appeal to raise £1 million for vital equipment at St Michael's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Please have a look at the website and donate a few pounds if you can.

http://www.cotsfortots.org.uk/

James and Lisa xx

Friday, 11 February 2011

Day 25 - Milk, Milk and More Milk

Well, what a week! Lots of positives, increased feeds, dirty nappies and weight gain..... her aspirates have gone up and down but you can't have everything.

The nurse did a great job with Olivia last night, the aspirates stayed low and she managed to keep her at 25ml feeds. When the surgeons did their rounds they were keen to get Olivia back on the 12 hourly increases but the consultant decided that 5ml every 24 hours would be a safer bet to reduce the risk of vomiting and very high aspirates.  We were also happier with this decision as we want to her to make solid progress rather than chopping and changing feed amounts all the time.

The pattern of previous days repeated itself with more milk comes more aspirates, before the 3pm feed there was over 30ml of aspirates! 

Tomorrow (the 12th) is the date that we were given at the start of the pregnancy when our baby was due to be born, that seems like a different lifetime ago now.  Tuesday will bring Olivia's fourth week in St Michaels and we are starting feel it, adrenaline can only keep you going for so long and we are both running on empty, very long days full of emotional ups and downs is an exhausting combination. I'm sure we are through the worst of it but you never know what is waiting for you around the corner....



No other exciting news today I'm afraid, lets hope for a good weekend and then we can start to think about a coming home party.

Night all,

J xx
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  1. Auntie Pam12 February 2011 at 19:55

    Good steady progress. Keep this in mind, James & Lisa. Its really good news that Jesse has been able to go into St Michael's to see her new neice- projected birthday today...
    lots of love from us all

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