Olivia has started to feed and quickly jumped from 5ml to 10ml feeds, today however was not all plain sailing. The good news is that she is still having milk but her aspirate levels have increased dramatically in the last 34 hours from a few mls to nearly 70! The doctors don't seem overly concerned as her stomach will produce more digestive juices now that it has milk to process but they do seem high.
She had kept all her feeds down until the 3pm feed when she threw a large portion of it back up all over her nice clean baby grow. Baby sick is not nice at the best of times but because of the amount of stomach acid she is producing try and imagine the colour and consistency of what a kiwi fruit milkshake might look like and you wouldn't be a million miles away!
There was a small dirty nappy this morning but that was partly induced by a glycerin chip so we are still hoping that the milk will start to push everything through, there isn't any obvious signs of a blockage....the surgeons check every morning for bloated painful stomach, lots of aspirate (well she does have that) and no bowel movements. She still seems relaxed and is very placid most of the time....she did throw up on me this evening, it wasn't much but gave me a big shock! Bless her she cried for a couple of minutes after as I guess the acid was burning her throat and nose. I panicked slightly called the nurse to get some tissue, the heart rate alarm went off as Olivia's tiny heart hit well over 200 beats per minute and she was screaming hard. It didn't last for long but Lisa was out of the room on the phone and I felt pretty useless!
Other news....still no visitors which gets more frustrating by the day for everyone but I do understand the risks and would hate for any of the babies to get flu from a visitor.
Still no sign of the mother with the very ill twin.
I had dinner this eveing with James, Jonny and Paul at a local pub and Lisa had dinner at her sisters with Kate G and Emily, it was really good to relax for a couple of hours and not be at work or in the hospital.
Milk Surplus!!
Lisa is expressing an amazing amount of milk, enough for triplets it seems! She has filled up her allocated space in the freezer on the ward, our freezer at home and has moved on to Jess and James'! Jess sent me this picture yesterday....
To give you some sort of insight in to the amount we have.....Olivia started feeding a couple of days ago and now is up to 10mls every three hours. Lisa has been expressing for nearly 3 weeks 6 times a day and is getting about 200ml from each expressing session ....well over 1 litre every day!! The hospital have said they we'll be able to donate some of it to the national milk bank but they are waiting for a pick-up before they can take anymore in. I'm going to be having it on my cereal at this rate ! ;-)
I get a whole day with my little girl tomorrow which is great so must get some sleep now.
Night
James zzzzz xxxx
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