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Evie Grace Lee was born on 31 December 2008 exactly 6 weeks early, weighing in at a tiny 3lb 12oz.
Havent had much time to write about her, so heres a brief summary.
Day 1: After her birth she was breathing for herself, so was allowed to stay with me for 20 mins or so. She was then transfered to High Dependency Unit on Special Care, where she was put into an incubator, and put on IV antibiotics (standard procedure when your waters have been broken for more than 24 hours).
Day 2: Still on antibiotics. Breathing on her own with a small amount of oxygen into her incubator.
Day 5: Last day on the antibiotics, being fed my breast milk through a nasal gastric tube hourly. Under the blue lights as she has jaundice.
Day 6: Shes out of the High Dependency unit
and is in the 'warm nursery', shes out of incubator in a warm bed called a 'watercot'. Shes also feeding 2 hourly and taking more milk now. Still jaundice though 
, needs more light therapy.
Day 13: Shes out of the watercot now, and is maintaining her temperature on her own. She has also been taking feeds via a bottle now every 3 hours, so theyve removed her nasal gastric tube. Shes also just gained weight to just past her birthweight. Doctor was talking about taking her home. Could be beginning of next week .
Day 14: Her jaundice keeps cropping up, hope it doesnt affect the plans for her coming home, they are going to repeat her blood test tomorrow to see if it needs further treatment.
This whole process is such an emotional rollercoaster. I feel so much for the people whos babies are very sick or who have been there for a long time (two babies in Evies room have been here for 4 months!) It is really pushing me and the rest of our family to our emotional and physical limits and its only been two weeks!
I visit her twice a day, in the morning from 9am -12pm, then again in the evening 6pm-9pm. so that I can feed her and do as much for her as I can. I just cant wait to have my little baby girl home where she belongs..
21/01/09 UPDATE: My baby girl is homeshe was allowed home on Saturday evening (after much pestering of the docs by myself). There was no medical reasons for her to stay in hospital, just her size, so she was an ideal candidate for the 'Home care team' from the hospital, who basically are on call 24/7 and come out every two days to check on her and weigh her. Shes doing great, and she weighs 4lb 5 oz today, she should only need to be under the hospital team for a few more days, then will be discharged to the Health visitor and GP. Im so happy I cannot tell you, she is so good, and settled into our home straight away.
Havent had much time to write about her, so heres a brief summary.
Day 1: After her birth she was breathing for herself, so was allowed to stay with me for 20 mins or so. She was then transfered to High Dependency Unit on Special Care, where she was put into an incubator, and put on IV antibiotics (standard procedure when your waters have been broken for more than 24 hours).
Day 2: Still on antibiotics. Breathing on her own with a small amount of oxygen into her incubator.
Day 5: Last day on the antibiotics, being fed my breast milk through a nasal gastric tube hourly. Under the blue lights as she has jaundice.
Day 6: Shes out of the High Dependency unit
and is in the 'warm nursery', shes out of incubator in a warm bed called a 'watercot'. Shes also feeding 2 hourly and taking more milk now. Still jaundice though , needs more light therapy.Day 13: Shes out of the watercot now, and is maintaining her temperature on her own. She has also been taking feeds via a bottle now every 3 hours, so theyve removed her nasal gastric tube
. Shes also just gained weight to just past her birthweight. Doctor was talking about taking her home. Could be beginning of next week .Day 14: Her jaundice keeps cropping up, hope it doesnt affect the plans for her coming home
, they are going to repeat her blood test tomorrow to see if it needs further treatment.This whole process is such an emotional rollercoaster. I feel so much for the people whos babies are very sick or who have been there for a long time (two babies in Evies room have been here for 4 months!) It is really pushing me and the rest of our family to our emotional and physical limits and its only been two weeks!
I visit her twice a day, in the morning from 9am -12pm, then again in the evening 6pm-9pm. so that I can feed her and do as much for her as I can. I just cant wait to have my little baby girl home where she belongs.
.21/01/09 UPDATE: My baby girl is home
she was allowed home on Saturday evening (after much pestering of the docs by myself). There was no medical reasons for her to stay in hospital, just her size, so she was an ideal candidate for the 'Home care team' from the hospital, who basically are on call 24/7 and come out every two days to check on her and weigh her. Shes doing great, and she weighs 4lb 5 oz today, she should only need to be under the hospital team for a few more days, then will be discharged to the Health visitor and GP. Im so happy I cannot tell you, she is so good, and settled into our home straight away.
