Hi Everyone,


So...as I thought, Abby reminded us that she was on her own schedule. Yesterday, we started her giving her 10 cc's of pedialyte through her G Tube for 2 hours and then we bumped her up to 20 cc's. It was at 20 cc's that she started gagging, refluxing and feeling nauseated. Eventually we stopped feeding her all together. It was very discouraging, but we held out for what today would bring.

Thankfully, Abby had a better day today. The docs decided to start feeding 10 cc's of formula per hour through her G Tube. As I mentioned above, yesterday we started out with pedialyte but this time they went with the formula which has more nutrients and calories, so that's good. But it's still on 10 cc's an hour. That's nothing. Just to give you an idea of how little that is, 30 cc's equals 1 ounce. You know those super small juice boxes? Not the regular size ones, the really really small ones? Well, those are 125 cc's. That means that it would take Abby 12 and a half hours to finish that tiny juice box at the rate shes going. But! She also drank an ENTIRE juice box today! In fact, after that juice box, we opened another one an hour or so later and she drank half of that one. It was awesome. She has NEVER done that before.

As I type this she is asleep and hooked up to her pump. We're still only at 10 cc's of formula, but that's alright. Last night she wasn't on a pump at all, so this is an improvement. Tomorrow we hope we can increase her pump volume to 20 cc's an hour (and maybe more?). Remember, we need to be at 50 cc's before we can come home.

We love you guys. Let's pray for 50 cc's!!!