July 21st, 2007

Well, not too much to report today, but I guess that's a good thing! Megan had a good night. She rested comfortably and did well with her ventilator. She has been tolerating her feedings, so they are increasing her to 4cc every 3 hours.

Now the nurse asked me to fill some bottles only to the halfway mark so they aren't wasting any breast milk. I figure they can go ahead and waste some so I can give them some more bottles! I tried to explain to her that if I would fill the bottles to only the halfway mark, I would fill 40 of their bottles per day. That would mean that I would use over 2200 bottles before Megan would come home!

We also had a good visit with Meggers. I got to take her temperature. I had to lift her little arm and take her temp in her armpit. I thought I would break her arm! She is actually pretty strong and was pulling her arm from me. The nurse said she never likes to have her temp taken :) We were there as the nurse gave her the breast milk, which is just through her IV. She also changed her diaper and suctioned any mucus from her lungs. She said that she is getting less and less mucus from the suctioning which is good. After all that, she put Megan on her stomach so she could rest.

We finally have the chest freezer hooked up. It is cooling down and we are planning on filling it with bottles tonight. Now my freezer will look empty!