It is 3:00 pm on May 26th, Kinley is now one day old. What a celebration we had. It is too bad you all couldn't of been here. The following information is how we celebrated.
Kathy headed down the hall to pump milk while Nurse Phyllis, Kinley and I received the results from Kinley's x-ray taken earlier today. For the most part everything looked as it should, but there was some air collecting in the stomach and intestines that are in Kinley's chest cavity. To remedy this Nurse Phyllis attached a syringe to the end of Kinley's NG tube (this is tube running directly to her stomach) and began to try and suck out the air in Kinley's stomach and intestines. Unfortunately, Phyllis could not get the results she was looking for. After a few adjustments to the NG tube with no changes in the results Phyllis decided to pull out the entire NG tube for a closer inspection. With the entire NG tube out, we could see that last inch of tube had been clogged. Rather than try to unclog the tube Phyllis simply replaced it with a brand new tube. With the new NG tube in place Phyllis was able to remove the excess air from Kinley's stomach and intestines.
Around 4:15 pm Kinley was given a new bag of nutrients and close to 4:30 Kinley gave us back a wet diaper. With that wet diaper Kinley was up to 4 cc/kilo/hr. (Remember, we want this to be at least 1) Way to go Kinley! Our own little urine factory.
Around 5:20 we had another blood gas test. This one showed Kinley's Ph at 7.32 (good), CO2 at 46 (good) and O2 at 101 (not bad).
With Kathy just getting out of the hospital today, we decided to head home during the shift change so we could try to catch up on rest. (Shift changes at Children's Mercy are between 7 and 8, both am and pm, and during that time no one other than nurses and doctors are allowed in the nursery.) Good night sweet Kinley. We will see you tomorrow morning.
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