"Come on Magic Numbers"

These are Jake's favorite words when he goes into the hospital at night. They weigh and take her vitals before her 9 pm feeding. Tonight it was exceptionally true. Katanya is up to 4 pounds and 12 ounces. She has been gaining usually an ounce a day. This is not the BEST news of the day however.

I have started breastfeeding and bottle feeding her occasionally. Usually 2 or 3 feedings max. It takes a lot of energy so they like to take it slow. Yesterday she took 30 ML from me for the first time. She took the remaining 16 by bottle. It was her first entire "oral" feeding. Then this morning she did the exact same. I went in at 3 pm to help give her a bath and she was still alert so she nursed another 30 ML and bottled 18 ML. (Her calorie intake had gone up to 48 ML). She had also taken a bottle at her noon feeding for the entire feeding. This was already 3 oral feedings entirely. So tonight I went in at 9 pm and she was alert and awake again so I decided to try to breastfeed her first. They weigh her beforehand and then weigh her after to find out how many ML she has eaten. So she ate and did her thing and when she was done they put her on the scale. 95 ML was what the numbers showed. They weighed her again. The same amount. Two other nurses came over and weighed her and made sure everything was "zero'd" out. The reading was still 95ML!!!!!! Katanya has never ceased to amaze me. Another good thing was she was still alert and awake. She has usually fallen asleep after her feedings but not tonight. 95 ML!!!!! WOW!!!!

On another note, they discovered a heart murmer about a week ago. They hear it on and off. They did an ECHO on Sunday to make sure she is okay. She has had her oxygen on a really low setting of .025. This could be from eating and starting the nipple, or the murmer, or a number of things they said. They sent the ECHO to Primary Children's and we are hoping to hear back tomorrow. I am praying that it is nothing big.