Day 123: June 17th
The girls and I stopped by to visit Ryker this morning. I gave him his 9am feed with his prune juice and he kept it all down. Overnight he did well, had spit ups, but his night nurse said not nearly as much as the last couple of nights. No poopy diapers overnight.. ugh! However, about an hour after his feed this morning, he was being fussy. I sat him up to burp him, and he almost immediately went back to sleep. Then he started fussing again, ripped a really loud fart, and went back to sleep. I didn’t change it before I left since he was still snoozing, but I’m really hoping it was more than just a toot.
The docs came by to do their rounds while I was there. They discussed how well he did both Thursday and Friday with his lack of spit ups, but since Saturday he’s had 4 throw ups a day. His fellow asked “what has changed since Saturday?”. I chimed in and said “poop! or lack there of..”. He didn’t gain any weight overnight either. Stayed exactly the same 9.48lbs. They talked about the possibility of giving him a variety of feeds to help get him regular since the spit up formula is known to constipate babies. I asked to wait it out just a bit longer, as it’s only been a few days since the new formula, and less than 48 hours since they had started introducing the prune juice. I just hate to keep changing things so much, and never come to a resolution. And if Ryker has shown us anything, time is on his side. He’s been more gassy recently, so it’s obvious things are trying to move, it’s just taking it’s sweet time to come out.
They’ve also decided to order an MRI to see the extent of his brain bleed from birth. His ultrasound came back stable from yesterdays scan, but suggested doing an MRI just to have something to compare back to if we have any complications arise in the future and need another MRI done.
Our goals today: Poop, eat, & gain weight.
**Update as of 9:45pm** Just called to check on the nugget. The suppository worked great! He had a massive blow out, 70 gram diaper ( nearly 2.5oz), keeping his feeds down all day, and still gained 24grams! Looking forward to rounds tomorrow!!!!