Day 122: June 16th
*Warning: Poop talk in this post *
They started prune Juice yesterday afternoon with hopes to help him get “regular”. He still hand’t gone by 6pm yesterday evening, making it more than 42 hours since his last stool. So they decided to give him a suppository in hopes to get things started It worked in about 20 minutes! It wasn’t a large diaper, so I have a feeling he has a LOT more to come. Unfortunately that was the only poopy diaper he had the rest of the day.
Little man had a decent day today. He’s still having some spit ups, but I honestly think a big part of it is due to the constipation. This afternoon he did have another poop! Not huge, which now makes it only 2 stools in 60+ hours.. His “spit up” formula that they started on Thursday has rice starch in it to help keep the food down for his reflux. It has a consistency of a milk shake.. So he’s basically been drinking a milk shake for every meal since Thursday afternoon. I honestly think I’d be throwing up at this point. He’s been getting 10ml’s of prune juice every 12 hours, so we’re hoping that’ll start kicking in soon..
Talks of discharge this coming week are still on the table. Honestly, if he can gain weight consistently, even with his spit ups, they’ll send us home.
Pray for poop!