Printing a Retraction! Day 54!

3 lbs 1 oz

We only had some gram increases today, not enough to get us up another ounce but we are in the right direction. Busy day today, had senior pictures in the morning in Indiana, then back to Greenville to finish our taxes and then to Dayton where we are now to see Calen. Not a lot in terms of long term changes but he has had some frequent stools so they are starting to put some zinc oxide on his bottom to prevent breakdown. He is having some issues with keeping his head always pointing right, they say this can be normal because they find it comfortable to lay in one direction and do not realize they can actually turn there head the other direction. A Occupational therapist just came in and saw him, they worked with some pressure point exercises to help relieve any discomfort he may be experiencing from laying his head to the left side. By not moving his head around it will create a soft spot on the side of his head that he favors, thus the importance of movement. 

We hung out at the park for a while with Joey. He really enjoyed it, he tried climbing up some monkey bar things that lead up to a slide that mom hated him being on thinking that he was going to fall, but he soon realized that the higher he got up the more he started to dislike it, so he cried a bit until I helped him onto solid ground, and then he came back down and did it again, crazy kid!!!

So when we started Calen's Assessment today it was noted that he had some blood in his stools. This did raise some alarm since he has not had any blood in his stool up to this point and so they ordered a abdominal xray along with a couple blood test. So far the xray was unchanged from April 5. They will look into his blood test just to make sure that he is not appearing to be developing an infection, Necrotizing Enterocolitis is of huge concern in premature babies which is an infection in his stomach, can be vary serious, in cases can require surgery. We are praying for nothing to be wrong of that nature, so we will let you know when we no more, but for the time being they will keep things the same which means we will continue his feedings. The retraction that I must print is that yesterday I said he was receiving 23 ml of breast milk every 3 hours, he is and was actually receiving 28 ml, my bad I am not sure where I got that messed up at. 

Ok so Dr. Belcastro stopped in to give us some new information about Calen. He does not think that he has an infection at all, he does think that maybe the fortifiers in his breast milk are causing the bleeding possibly due to some intolerance. They will be placing all feeds on hold at this time for a couple of days because they did see that his blood counts are down and it is time for a blood transfusion. So late tomorrow they will start the blood, he needs to be 24 hours from food to get the transfusion.