Not much to post today...Lila continues to do well as far as everyone can tell. She started TPN today - up till that point she was on a dextrose solution. The TPN will provide her nutrition until she can begin oral feeds when her intestines tolerate. She is still intubated and we are just waiting until the doctors feel that she is ready to be extubated. We thought that might be today, but they don't want to extubate too early. Right now with the tube, she can have more pain meds without having to worry about her respiratory function being depressed. When they take her off the ventilator, they will not be able to give her as much because she has to stay at an alert enough state to adequately breath on her own. She has been breathing over the vent rate for over 24 hours, but they are still being cautious and thinking that maybe tomorrow they will try to wean her from the vent. Her NG (nose to stomach) tube turned to an OG (mouth to stomach) tube because the NG was not being very effective at draining the bile from her stomach. We are still waiting for that tube to drain clear until we can introduce oral feeds. I am not spending the night at the hospital yet, but will probably do so when she is extubated - we'll see how Brody is doing too. He seems to like his sister and talks about her "boo boo" on her "tummy." He even threw her baby doll at her 2 times this morning. She is going to have to learn to be tough around him! Hopefully I'll have good news to post tomorrow that we get to hold Lila - we'll see!
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