No more tube

Today was a pretty good day. She did a little bit better on the amount of formula that she was getting at each feeding. This evening, Dr. McGowan decided that we would see what would happen if she was able to be on her own schedule, so for tonight... she is what's called ad lib on demand. This means that she gets to eat what she wants when she wants. So basically instead of them having her on a three hour eating schedule, she gets to make her own schedule and eat as little or as much as she wants to each time. SO... they have taken her tube out for now we are going to see how she does. The main thing is that she continues to gain weight. For some reason this evening she lost some weight, but she hasn't been on her own schedule to say that's what caused it. Tonight she weighed 7 lbs 13.6 oz. So tomorrow night when she gets weighed, lets hope that it's up. As long as she continues to gain weight she's getting enough calories in her feedings.

Here's a picture of her without her tube for this evening. It's not the greatest picture, but it'll do.

Our nurse tonight, let us file her fingernails. For some reason the day nurse for the last couple of days wouldn't let us do it, but tonight's nurse was glad to let us and even gave us a file because the one that we had was in our room. We were hoping that filing her nails would wake her up a little bit so that she would eat just a little more, like 4 ml's, but it didn't work. She didn't seem to care that I was messing with her.