Ruby Hope McKee Starling

It's late and we're tired.  We'll post a porper update tomorrow.

Ruby is still doing great.  We might have hit  a bit of a bump in the road, we just need to wait and see.  it's nothing too serious. Part of the incision from her repair surgery is red.  One of the surgical fellows drained and she's taking keflex to head off any problems.  If it doesn't clear up in the next couple days they'll do an ultrasound to make sure thier isn't a pocket fluid under her skin.  I've been told this nothing to worry about and it happens.  We are worried and do hope that it's othing serious.

We had a nice father's day.  Chris spent the night with Ruby last night becasue she was so cranky from the sedatoin weaning.  From what I understand they had a pajama party in the NICU.  Ruby hung out Dad and surfed the net until almost 4am.  She usually sleeps through the night. So, we knew the wean was hitting her pretty hard if she was up all night.  Her doctors gave her another rest day today, thankfully.

The good news is that she took 29ml from the bottle this morning. We also got to add another PO feed, that's a total of three a day now.  We're doing one bottle and two breast feedings.  We are so happy she progressing with the feeds.

This afternoon I laid Ruby in her crib on her back.  i went the restroom and when I came back I found her like this. She's catching up developmentally, which is a really good thing.

Here's Ruby saying "Up up and away!" Actually she's most likely saying, "What is that thing at the end of my arm?"