Today has been a roller coaster. We found out that we looking at going home on Tuesday. This is very exciting and scary at the same time. Obviously, this was an up part of the day.
We are currently recovering from the low part of the day that lasted since around noon. Audra was getting milk every three hours and started to get really fussy. We are not talking about a little fussy. We are talking about holding her breath, turning blue fussy. And this came out if no where for us because she had been doing so well overall and with the smaller feedings.
No one had an answer. So finally they did an X-ray on her stomach. It turns out that her feeding tube was placed too deep - past her stomach - and her system couldn't handle the larger feedings. She has a bunch of air in her system that she needs to clear out.
So Audra is going to be taking a pause on her feedings tonight and starting over in the morning. We are very thankful that we were able to identify a cause to her problems and now fix them. We were very scared that the X-ray would show nothing and we would be left scratching our heads as to the problem.
In the scheme of things, this is only a minor setback. We feel blessed that this has been our roughest day because we just have to look around to realize that things could be much worse.
Thank you to everyone for your support and prayers!
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