May 20, 2007

Increased feedings to 3 ml/hr of Elecare through G-tube.

May 19, 2007

Nora’s direct Bilirubin is 2.1, total Bilirubin is 3.4. Today she had a brown runny stool.

May 18, 2007

Increased feedings to 2 ml/hr of Elecare through G-tube. Began administering Phenobarbital to help flush liver. Nora now weigh

May 17, 2007

Resumed feedings in late p.m. on 1 ml every 3 hours of Elecare formula through G-tube. Elecare is a medical pre-digested formu

May 16, 2007

Nora began dumping, feedings were stopped in early a.m. 🙁

May 15, 2007

Feedings increased to 4 ml of Pregistimil per hour through G-tube. No poops since she started the Pregestimil.

Nora Update Email #5

Hello Everyone, Well Nora didn’t get to come home last week 🙁 She’s still very stable and doing well but they h

May 14, 2007

Feedings increased to 3 ml of Pregestimil per hour through G-tube. Nora’s direct Bilirubin is 2.7. She is started on 50mg of

May 13, 2007

Nora is fed 2 ml/hr of Pregestimil formula, a formula specially designed for babies with absorption problems, through her G-tu

Happy Mother’s Day!

Nora’s sweet nurses Jill and Patrea had a picture party at 2 a.m. with Nora for Mother’s Day. See the photo galler

May 12, 2007

The lack of feedings has caused Nora to become very uncomfortable and upset. The TPN gives her the nutrients she needs intrave

May 11, 2007

Nora is taken off oral feedings completely and put back on TPN.

May 10, 2007

Continued nursing with on demand feedings. Today was a bad day for Nora. She had a lot of tummy aches and began “dumping”.

May 9, 2007

Nora is now nursing on demand and eating until her tummy is full just like any other baby. 🙂

May 8, 2007

Continued nursing in small amounts along with the 20 ml bottles of breast milk. Nora is doing so well the doctors take her off