Little Belly

Quick update...

Elias saw quite a few doctors today.

The eye doctors came and said his eyes looked great.

The genetics team came and said that to them at this point, his issues appear to be simply orthopedic (praise God) and want to see him in a week or two, and at that point depending on his progress, may or may not draw more blood for some testing.

The orthopedic doctor did not make it to him today, so I'm hoping he comes right away tomorrow. I'm very interested to see what he says is going on with his hands, and what we can do to correct them.

My milk hasn't come in yet, and the lactation consultant suggested we begin supplementing with formula because he was VERY hungry and needed something other than the IV fluids. Well he sucked down 10cc's in half a minute. Then it all came back up. Nurse said it was most likely cause he was throwing the biggest fit before I got down there to feed him and he was all worked up, and probably swallowed a ton of air. Then a few hours later, we went down and gave him 20cc's, making sure to pause every few seconds to give him time to swallow. He devoured it again and only spat up a little bit. We left to eat dinner, and came back down for his next feeding and the nurse told us he threw it all up again. She emptied his stomach and said there was a ton of mucus and yucky stuff in there that might not have been helping. She told us that because he wasn't holding it down, they wanted to keep him for another night in the NICU. We were so dissapointed. We had been anticipating all day him being able to come upstairs with us. But we understood.

At his next feeding, we feed him another 20cc's and he kept it all down! Then Kevin went down for some Daddy/son bonding time, feed him again, and he held it all down. So if he can continue to hold it all down by tomorrow, they said he should be able to come up with us :)