Still doing good.

Jolianne is having a pretty good day today. She weighs 5.5 lbs and they have increased her feeds to 14 cc's an hour. She is still on continuous feeds. They decided to hold off on the feeds every three hours to give her tummy time to adjust to the feeding tube being placed there instead of in the intestine. They just moved it up to her stomach yesterday. We will see how she does with the increase. The speech therapist wasn't able to come today but they are going to try again tomorrow with the bottle. They are still practicing with the pacifier to get her use to the suck/swallow motion that she needs to have to eat by mouth. She had an eye exam today to be sure that the vessels had formed correctly. The doctor said that everything looked really good. He will examine again in 4 weeks. She also had an echo cardiogram today to be sure her heart is still doing ok. We haven't gotten the results back yet from that exam. Yesterday she had a head x-ray to be sure that her brain is growing correctly. Results from that test came back that everything looks great. We had been concerned that her head was small (microcephaly), but the doctor said that she isn't showing any signs of a lack of growth in her brain. Jolianne is one month old today so they are doing a bunch of routine tests to be sure everything is in working condition.

I also want to say happy 5th birthday to my niece Emma. She is such a sweet heart. She is very glad to welcome her first girl cousin to the family. I am excited to see them play together!!!