Cora is home!! She ate well overnight and the nurse, occupational therapist and doctor all cleared her for discharge today. We stayed at the hospital for a while after she was officially discharged to visit Lily. They are leaving a bassinet in Lily's room for Cora for when we come to visit. Rose was very excited to welcome Cora home. She is doing a great job of being gentle with Cora, and being quiet when she is sleeping :)
In addition to breastfeeding, Cora will continue to get bottles of milk fortified with HMF, or extra calories and nutrients, until she gains some more weight. She has an appointment on Thursday with her pediatrician and he will decide when we can cut back and stop the HMF.
It was hard leaving Lily there today..
Lily is doing great though, and just working on gaining weight for the next few weeks before the next step in her exophageal atresia journey, which will be a gap study to see how far apart the two ends of her esophagus are. Then they will repeat the study another month after that to see how the esophagus is growing. The two ends need to be 2cm apart before they can do surgery to repair it.
Thank you for all the love and support! Today was a big day!
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| Oma snuggles with Cora |
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| Rose loves Cora's new seat |
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| Sister sister. |
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| Driving home |
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| Cora home at last |
Oh little Lily! I can only imagine how hard it was leaving her. The sister sister photo made me tear up.
ReplyDeleteBut yay Cora, how wonderful to have her at home! Such a good big sister Rose is. She's such a sweetie. 💕
That's a great day, congrats! One down, one to go. I love the oma shot - Cora's saying "no pics, please!" ;-)
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine how hard to leave Lily! Live you all.
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