January 6, 2009: Today Sophia's xray shows that her bowel is completely normal. They are still holding off on feeding her though until tomorrow morning. Dr. Tiffany wants to wait 36 hours from the time the urine culture was taken so they can make sure it comes back as negative. Poor Sophia will have to keep hangin' in there. Our nurse Christy talked with the dietitian and lactation consultant also about Sophia's feeding changes. They suspect that all the changes that were made within 4 days (HMF calories, then changed to neosure calories, rice ceral thickener, then the Simply Thick thickener, etc) could have been just too much for her little body to handle - especially given her track record. They also would like me to ccut dairy out of my diet completely to see if perhaps she has an allergy to the cow milk protein (which can show up in breast milk). The reason they are even considering this is because she started having the major throw up around the time they started to add the neosure to her milk - which is made from cow milk. I highly doubt this is the cause, but I'm certainly willing to do anything to help Sophia. Sophia is still on the antibiotics and clear fluids.
When they took yesterday's xrays, they had to rotate Sophia from her back to her side and back again. While doing this, her IV in her head got pulled out, so they called in the IV team and were able to put an IV in her hand on the very first try. What a rough day for our tiny girl. Last night when we gave her a bath and weighed her, she had lost 30 grams - down to 2780. That translates to 6lbs 2oz. I suspect she'll probably have lost another ounce or so today.
Keep praying her her! We appreciate it!