Therapy and progress

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 7:09 AM, MST

Tuesday was filled with more visits from cardiology, occupational therapy, and doctors and nurses. Everyone is saying how great she is doing, and how great she looks! She is tolerating her feeds well, and has already had her first increase to 9mls last night at 8pm. She will start to have 3ml increases every 12 hours as long as she keeps tolerating feeding well. She has been taking nearly all her feeds by mouth as well, which is huge! Because she is a cardiac baby, she tends to tire quite quickly. So getting her to full feeds by mouth might take a bit of effort, but it is great that she has been building up some stamina.

Once we get her eating full feeds by mouth all the time, we will be able to be discharged until surgery!! This is our goal, to get us to go home!!

Today is my birthday and the family is coming up to visit :)

Cassidy is waking up and it is not time for a feed yet, so I need to go soothe her for 45 minutes. Yipes.