January 21st: Yesterday was Oakley's first day without TPN! He has has it since he was born, but yesterday they weaned him off of it! We are so excited to be making progress on his nutrition, especially because TPN can cause long-term liver problems...hooray Oakley!
His new formula probably won't last long though, because he has been puking when he gets it (but not when he gets breastmilk). The nutritionist isn't back until tomorrow though, so just to clarify the issue, instead of doing 4 hours of breastmilk and then 4 hours of formula, today we will do 8 hours of breastmilk and then 8 of formula.
We changed attending doctors today, so extubation scheduling should come up shortly they said they want to coordinate with ENT, because they want to look at his upper airway when he is extubated.
Lastly, you may be wondering why there were no footprint pictures in the last post, and there is a reason. Oakley had a big blister on his big toe on his right foot, because the pulse ox, which measures how oxygenated the blood that is circulating is, caused a burn. It is supposed to be moved from site to site every few hours, but it got negleted. I'll do a make-up print when it heals up.
Sorry, I don't know why, but our posts weren't published, this was written 01/21
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