After Candice and Nicole left we held and loved on Avery and when the time came we were allowed to try and bottle feed her her 8:30pm feeding. Well our nurse (whom we really really like) went on break and a different nurse was taking over for her while she was gone. While our nurse was on break we were attempting to bottle feed and Avery had a small drop (she was in the high 70's and she needs to be above 80) and the nurse came over. The nurse took the bottle from my hand, shoved it in Avery's mouth even though Avery was resisting. Avery choked a little, spit it all up and dropped even more. The nurse looked at me and said "well she is too young for this and not ready" and proceeded to try and take the bottle from me to put in in her tube, i told her "NO, we will wait" and the nurse walked away. ugh.
Anyway, we ended up tube feeding almost the entire feeding but i expected as much since we are just starting to introduce the bottle/breast to her. She is up to 40mL per feeding and doing well with it. Still at 2L of oxygen but down to 22% as of tonight! She had her very first eye exam today, her nerves in her eyes are immature (DUH, they are still developing). They also check for things wrong with the nerves and things like that and she is at a stage zero, meaning other than her nerves being immature there is nothing wrong with her eyes! She will continue to have an eye exam every 2 weeks and will likely continue after she gets home. She also got her first synagis shot today!
While we were in the NICU today they called over the speaker "we need a team to OR window 2" which meant there was a new baby coming in. Then not even 10minutes later there was a call "we need a team to window 1" and shortly after that "we need a team into L&D room 12". So tonight we got 3 new babies into the NICU so i hope their stay is easy and short lived. I really wouldn't wish the journey on anyone, but you make the best of what you are dealt.
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