MMMMM.... Good

Brinleigh looks like she has that white powder on her face after eating one of those white little donuts.  Of course she is smiling because it was so good.

Brinleigh has had a hard time sustaining her body temperature and was having an elevated heart rate for the past few nights.  They changed her bed (isolette, incubator etc) because it seemed to be the source of the problem.  They thought that the lack of constant temperature was also affecting her heart rate.  Last night she had a different nurse and she was talking to Carrie and the Dr's and reminded them that Brinleigh as on Caffeine and that could be affecting her heart rate.  They all went DUH that's right so...... they are taking her off the caffeine to see if that stabilizes her heart rate.  Normal range is about 175 to 184 ish.  Hers was getting above 200 consistently.

She is now up to her full feeding of 23 cc's of milk that they are also fortifying with extra calories to try to help her gain weight.

They tested her eyes the other day which still look good with a few areas to watch but nothing of concern.  With her problem of holding her temperature and the elevated heart rate they were concerned she may be getting sick.  Time will tell now that they have made the recent adjustments.

Her color looks good and her stomach now looks in proportion to the rest of her body.  All good things.  Oh and the white on her face is just dried saliva.  The only tube she has in her still is her feeding tube.  The blood tests they did on her earlier in the week were all good.