Home Sweet Home

Well ok maybe not but... This has been Brinleighs home for the last 6 weeks and will be for some time in the foreseeable future.  You have a better reference as to her size when you see her in there.  Even with her in the isolette you can just sit and watch her for hours.  Carrie and Dustin have chairs they can pull up next to her and look at her.  Many of the pictures appear to be looking directly at Bringligh but they are taken through the glass of the isolette.Very few pictures are of her out of it.  The bed is warmed to a certain temperature and if the small circular holes which are those that they use to attend to her care are left open for very long the temperature will drop.  If so the bed alarms to tell you of the drop in temperature. 

Brinleigh started on breast milk yesterday with 1 cc (30 cc = 1 oz) being given to her in the early afternoon with a second dose of 1 cc to be given to her last night.  They check her stomach to see if she has digested the previous milk first before they will give her the second.  She was given breast milk at IMC just prior to her infection and abscess in her bowels then it was stopped. They feel she has healed enough to be able to let her try to eat.  It is also good to feed her to try to get her other organs working.  Yesterday when she got upset and fidgety with her Bradying they decided to give her a Binky.  It settled her right down. 

On Saturday she weighed 2 lbs 7 oz.  But the nurse was quick to point out she probably has allot of fluid wight retention from her medications.  She is still on the antibiotics.