Clara Judith Sherwood

Clara is doing well. They have decreased her O2 pressure to .6 liters/min but she is still at 30%. Her weight has held at 3.5 lbs for the last few days so the doctor's have put her back on milk fortifier(gives her more calories). She is taking 30 cc every three hours.

Her latest cranial ultrasound showed that her ventricles are just about back to normal size and the bleed has resolved itself. That is very good news but does not rule out development issues later on in life. We will just cross our fingers.

Krystal is still sick and has not seen Clara since last Friday. She is chomping at bit to see Clara but understands the risk she poses to Clara and the other babies in the NICU.

The Doctors decided to try one bottle feeding per day to see if Clara has the ability to suck, swallow, breath. So I got to give her the first bottle today. We started out with a pre-term nipple but she was sucking so hard that she would choke her self so the nurse changed to a term nipple (smaller hole) and she took right to it. She was able to take in 22 of the 30 cc from the bottle. She was also able to keep her stats up during the feed. We (or I) will give her 1 bottle each day for the rest of the week and stating next week they will give her one feed on the bottle and one on the teat.


Cheers for Now.....
Mike (Professional Baby Feeder)