Busy day. We had to be at physical therapy at 11:15. The therapist was impressed that her muscles and joints seemed much less resistant when she moved them around. It seems that the things we've been doing to keep her head turned to her left side (or in the middle) have been helping as well; she turns to that side more easily now and will sometimes sleep that way on her own. The therapist said to keep doing her exercises and gave us a new one to do and to not give up; it could take a month or two for her head to even out.
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| Adam's great aunt Ruth got to cuddle Aubrey yesterday. They were both happy. |
We took a bottle with us in hopes that she'd eat between appointments, and she didn't disappoint. She took the whole bottle and then took a nap.
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| Working on the bottle in between appointments |
Next we went to see the neonatologist who was also impressed with Aubrey; she said she was growing well and looked good. She said that once she got up to about 80 or 85ml of volume with every feeding that we could bottle feed her around midnight then wait until 5:30 or 6a.m. to feed her again. If she's awake we could give the bottle and if she's asleep we can use the tube. We're thinking she will do that within a week and hopefully after that she'll take the bottle in the morning and we can get the tube out soon. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but even the doctor agreed with me today saying that getting the tube out will help make her gag reflex less sensitive.
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| Her head is supposed to be in between the wedges to help correct her flat spot. After about an hour she freed herself. |
-Keli
AGH she is so stinkin' cute!! :) So happy to hear all the good reports!
ReplyDeleteAmanda B.