NICU, day 15

Today was an EXCELLENT day for Avery. This morning/afternoon they stopped giving her fluid and lipids in her IV and started a clear fluid just to keep the line open. The day nurse told me she suspects that will be gone fairly soon too. She weighed in at 2lbs 12oz today too, i can't believe how fast she is growing. They started increasing her feedings more frequently and by tomorrow she will be up to 24ml at every feeding. Once she hits 24ml they will increase feedings slower to make sure that she tolerates them, they don't want to rush it too much. When she is tolerating 24ml nicely they will start putting a power in my breast milk that they give her so that it increases the calorie content and will "fatten her up". She is tolerating feedings great and just doing so well right now. Phillip held her for 45mins tonight and she held her temperature nicely and only had a desat when she was first moved into his arms (it always happens, she hates being messed with). Tomorrow morning they will be drawing some blood from her heel so that they can check her potassium among other things since they took her off of her IV things. She is currently at 6liters of air (35%) and doing really well with her nasal cannula.