early-June 15, 2008

Baby is still really tired, and has been for a couple of days now. It has taken her a lot of energy over the past few days to bottle and breast feed, and it sort of caught up with her yesterday. As you read in Amanda's previous post, we let her sleep pretty much the rest of Saturday, with feedings coming from the gavage tube rather than us. This morning she was awake when we got here, but was only able to muster 10 ml of milk, so we asked the nurse to gavage the rest. We asked everyone who was to visit her today to stay away, just to get her to conserve her energy. As she increases her feeds, she's really turned her energy towards digestion and away from awareness. She wears out very quickly. Her temp was normal today-37.1 C, and her weight was 2678 grams after her first feeding attempt. She's a five pounder now, but still has a lot of other things she needs to be able to do.