Clara Judith Sherwood

Clara has had a bump in the road of her development. Her digestive tract has been overworked and is causing her problems. So the medical staff has decided to stop all breast milk feeding for at least a week to give her gut a break, and put her back on IV feeding and antibiotics to treat a possible infection in her bowels. She is showing minimal outward signs of problems. Her stats are very good including an average heart rate, she is down to 21-25% on her O2. I spent several hours with her today and if we did not get a phone call last night I would have never know anything was wrong. I talked with the Doctor today and he seemed very optimistic but just wants to be very cautious. They has asked us to keep her stimulation to the very minimum. So Kcare is on hold until further notice.
She is up to 2lbs 15 ozs and is 14 3/4 inches long. Her eyes are developing very well and her crainial ultrasound read came back unchanged. Krystal was able to play "dress-up" yesterday with Clara and she tolerated it for several hours until the Doctors ordered her feedings stopped last night.

Krystal and I are very disappointed but understand that this comes with the territory. We will continue love and support her the best way possible.

Cheers for now...
Mike