Moving Forward

Things are moving forward. Ingrid's feeding plan now includes some (legal) nursing. To spur her on a bit her doctor decided to remove Ingrid's NG tube so that she has to get all of her food through her mouth and by herself. She will get milk direct from the source alternated with a bottle of MBM supplemented with high calorie formula. Now Kate can breastfeed and Ingrid has zero tubes sticking in her!

There is nothing like seeing her beautiful face without tubes and tape on it!!

We met with Ingrid's surgeon today and he said it would be alright for us to go back to Virginia when we are discharged from the hospital. We still haven't figured out how we will transport her in a car, but we are working on it. We do plan to stay in Cleveland at least until the end of July. After that Dr. Barksdale (her surgeon) will want to see Ingrid every 3 months. He said that the earliest they would do her closure surgery would be next May, in part because the winter (cold and flu season) months pose too great a risk of infection.


We took some pictures of Ingrid's omphalocele today to document how it has changed. Her O is getting smaller and more granulated. There is much more skin growing up it than when she was first born.



Hopefully Ingrid will eat and gain weight over the next few days so we can go home!