Tuesday, July 29th - More of the Same

Sorry everyone, but this post is going to pretty short and sweet. My brain feels pretty fried and I am having a hard time keeping everything straight in my head.

Overall, today has been a continuation of the past two days. Vomiting and Screaming. As of 9:30 pm she has thrown up 4 times, but none of them were guesstimated as being larger than 12 ccs. So she vomited more times today than yesterday, but in lesser quantity. Katie, Kinley's day nurse, described some of smaller amounts of throw up as "wet burps." Kinley is still very fussy and screams bloody murder whenever she is upset, but we may have found her kryptonite. If we lay Kinley in her boppy, with her right side down, and cover her in warm blankets she almost always falls asleep, for at least a little while. Though, she could also just be worn out from vomiting and screaming all day long. On a side note, I have changed my theory on what is causing Kinley so much discomfort. I no longer think that it is caused by gas. Both Kathy and Katie believe, and it makes more sense, that Kinley's vomiting and screaming is being caused by reflux.

No real substantial changes made during rounds, but there were two interesting ones. They changed Kinley's erythromycin doses from every 12 hours to every 8 hours, but adjusted the dosage so that she still receives the same amount over a 24 hour period. Since erythromycin increase stomach and intestine motility they want it in her system more consistently. A similar change will also be made with her methadone dose. Starting tomorrow (Wednesday) morning Kinley's methadone dose will be moved from every 12 hours to once every 24 hours, but that one dose will be doubled. So over a 24 hour period she will still be receiving the same amount of methadone.

Biggest new for today is that Kinley received her 2 month immunization shots. I will let you all use your imagination at how much she enjoyed them. She received 3 shots. Two in one thigh and one in the other thigh. The reason the shots had to go in her thighs is because they have to be injected directly into muscle. Her arms do not have enough muscle yet to receive a shot.

Biggest news from yesterday that did not get reported. All of Kinley's bedroom furniture was delivered and set up. We do not have pictures yet, but we will work to remedy that. This was the one silver lining that we can find from Kinley being born with CDH (congenital diaphragmatic hernia). It gave us plenty of time to order furniture. A free bit of advice to anyone expecting or planning on having a child soon, order your baby furniture early. The order for Kinley's furniture was placed on May 1st and it didn't arrive until yesterday.

So much for short and sweet. Her are a few pics of when Kinley was not vomiting or screaming.