Our little girl is getting stronger and stronger each feeding. Last night at the 5 pm feeding, she ate 15 ml from me and 20 ml from the bottle. We were very proud of her. Big brother Jonathan was there helping keep her awake by doing "this little piggy" to her toes and helping burp her. At one point Jonathan was sitting in his little rocking chair and Nana was reading him a story and Diana made a whimpering noise and Jonathan said, "Just a minute, baby sister needs me." He walked over, patted her on the head and said "It's okay Diana, big brother is here."
Through the night Diana was feed from the bottle every other time and did really well. She took all but 5 ml and 8 ml from her bottle during the two bottle feedings and was gavaged on the other two in hopes to save her strength.
Today at the 11 am feeding, she nursed really well and took 25 ml from me and 5 ml from the bottle. I think she was tuckered out because she had a lot of activity before the feeding. We got there about 10:20 and she was wide awake and was going to town on her pacifier, the first I have seen her do this. I am hoping the pacifier will help strengthen her ability to suck. The development team came and did an eval on her and she did everything very well except for the issue with her feet turning in. They gave us a couple of exercises to do with her little feet but they weren't too concerned but thought it was a good idea to ask for the exercises. Her bilirubin came down a bit to 10.4 so they will check it again tomorrow as they want it down more.
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