Adalee is one month old today and is coming along slowly. We have plateaued with her feedings where she was getting to much in her that she started having more frequent and runny poo so shes staying at 9ml an hour on continues feeds though a feeding tube that goes down her nose and into her stomach the Doctors have added something called Certo (its what you make jams and jelly with) to the milk to thicken it up and hopefully slow down the digestion process so shes able to absorb and process her food better. The good thing is she is growing she is up to 5lbs 6oz now and hardly fits into her preemie clothes, shes also starting to get a little personality! Today she had to have another blood transfusion. She is not creating enough red blood cells because she isn't getting enough iron in her diet (iron would be to rough on her tummy right now since she is still healing from surgery). All in all Addy is doing good considering the hand she was dealt. We knew we were going to get to a place where she couldn't handle the food intake but the Doctors weren't expecting her to even get to 9ml an hour based on the amount of intestines that she has left, so yet again she has surprised them with her progress!
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