Poop!

Well, the little Peanut did it...she finally made poop. If I'd only had my camera! The nurse saved the diaper to show us...we were actually very grateful!

Without going into too much detail...it was small, dark, dense...but it was enough to relieve us (and Madeleine a bit...). Her X-rays that they've been taking with the dye have shown that her system is connected, not twisted, malformed or obstructed...and some parts of her small intestine are crossing over the mid-line by her liver, even though most of it is on the other side. We want it to be evenly spread out across her belly but that liver is just taking it's half out of the middle these days!!! But it works, and is formed, and that's a good thing.

She's come down on her oxygen a bit, she's in the 60's and 70's now, down from the 80's and 90's...they're hoping to ween her down even more in the next few days to a week and get her on a conventional ventilator...and you know what that means, Kangaroo Care!!!! Touchies!!!

They're testing her bodily fluids out since her electrolytes are a bit off, and combined with other things (that I can't quite remember right now) they're making sure she's not "stressed". They're giving her hydrocortisone to assist her in that, since her body doesn't make cortisol (which you excrete to assist with stress) the hydrocortisone will supplement it until she can make it herself. We got a lot of information today...and most of it was a big relief since the past few days have been a little rough. I was afraid she was going to have to have surgery on her gut, and her oxygen kept going up...it was just a lot.

Still not out of the woods, but the trees are blooming a little...