The doctor called me this morning with an update since I didn't make it to the morning visit. This was her first time working with Avery and she said she is so impressed with Avery's ability to breath and even called her 'marvelous.' She said she wasn't too concerned with the residual blood in her stomach and started her milk again, but still only in small amounts; 1 ML every 3 hours. Tonight while we were there the nurse checked her stomach and pretty much all the milk had been digested and there was no more residual blood.
The doctor said they were giving her a break from labs today because she earned her day off :) She sure has. The poor little girl has been poked, prodded, and picked more than most people I know in the first 11 days of her life. So a day off is well earned!
The best news we got today was that Avery had a great night last night, which means she tolerated the kangaroo care like a champ! Which hopefully means someday in the near future, daddy will get his chance to kangaroo her.
So here are some pictures of our birthday 'celebration' for Bill's birthday. Avery and day nurses made him a card (mostly the nurses) and Avery gave her daddy some big googley eyes:
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