Time Flies!

When giving Beanie her pain killer suppository this morning, I realised that we only have one day's supply left of them. So hard to believe that it has been four days already since she had the operation, and, in three sleeps, she has her stitches removed!  Incredible how one loses track of time when your day is spent looking after the Beanie!

Today started off a bit on the rough side. Emily did not have a good night's sleep because of her blocked nose - I had to sleep with my hand on her for most of the night to set her at ease. Beanie made a big sneeze as she started her 10am feed, and I could hear that it was a sore one.  She started crying as soon as she had sneezed.  I had to stop the feed and allow her to calm down.  Thus began our two hour ordeal of trying to get some food into her.  On the one hand, when she is tired and agitated and wants to sleep, I want to leave her to do so. But on the other hand, she really needs to keep up with her feeds so that her body has the strength to continue healing.  At 12.50 when she finally agreed to take her bottle again, some blood came out of her mouth. I can't tell you how much this upsets me!  I had to give her to my mom so that I could calm down because I almost felt like I would faint, and I didn't want her to pick up on this.  We had a look in her mouth to see where the blood was coming from, and I couldn't believe when I lifted her top lip to see if the cut there had reopened - there was NO cut.  Her little mouth has healed so quickly, that you can't even see where the doctor stitched her lip together on the inside.

We realised that the blood must be coming from her nose, so decided to revert to the 'MacGuyvered' medicine dummy as it has a smaller teet than the bottle and is less intrusive in her mouth.



Before



After



As you can see from the pictures, Grant forced a feeding tube into the back of this medicine dummy, and then attached a syringe into the feeding tube.  We also removed the dispensing cup as this was just getting in the way.  She feeds by sucking on the dummy and we push milk into her mouth using the syringe. Once again, this worked like a charm, and she instantly had a full feed, much to my relief!  The three subsequent feeds have all been this way and it is still going well.

Her breathing is a lot better today too.  We have had her humidifier going the whole day because she is either in a room with a fire burning in the fireplace, or in her room with the heater wall panel on, so the air is warm, but dry.  The humidifier helps to put moisture back into the air, and this, in turn, has stopped her nose from swelling so much today.

Her ears are a lot better too.  When I cleaned them this morning before putting her drops in, there wasn't much ooze, and she didn't fight me when I put the drops in.  Hopefully this means that whatever was brewing in them is clearing.

After being with us full time since Thursday, Grant was missing his little Angel very much today when he went back to work. Emily seemed to know this, and gave me this awesome pose when I took a picture of her this morning to send to her daddy:

Morning, Daddy.

And, finally, here are updated facey pictures of her today: