Day 13

The doctors did their rounds this morning and we were able to talk with them about Olivia's progress. He said that they were going to keep Olivia at the same volume for her feedings (so 25cc by bottle and 20cc by ng tube). However, the night nurse said that Olivia finished both bottles last night and the day nurse said that if she finished her bottles today, she would talk to the doctor about moving Olivia up to 30cc by bottle and 15cc by ng tube. So we're hoping when we get there tomorrow, she will have finished all of her feedings throughout today and tonight. During some feedings in the past few days, she would only drink half or so of her bottle. So she needs to be able to finish her bottles, and not rely on the ng tube to get in the rest of the feeding. 40cc is the magic number to be discharged so while it seems so close, it seems far away as well. But each day we're getting closer to just bottling 40cc, so hopefully in the next few days, we can possible talk with the docs about removing the tube.
In the past few days, the NICU had been getting a lot of new admissions and one of the nurses mentioned to us that a few babies would be moved to the overflow area in the castle (the Sanford children's hospital looks like a castle from the outside- it really is cool and as a kid, it would make me less intimidated and scared to go to the hospital). Well, this afternoon we got a call from the NICU care coordinator and she said that they were moving some babies who were closer to going home over to the overflow rooms. She asked if we would mind if Olivia was moved and we didn't have a problem. So tomorrow when we visit her, she'll be in a new room! Of course she moves as soon as we were able to navigate our way through that part of the hospital ;) 

For now, we continue to pray for Olivia's health and for her ability to drink all of her feedings. While we still have no discharge date, we know we are getting closer!