Weight Wait

Ingrid had a great eating day yesterday but did not show a weight gain. And today she did not have a spectacular eating day. We are eager to get home and this process is very frustrating. When Ingrid begins to gain weight we can go home, but she doesn’t seem to eat enough. Her breastmilk is mixed with ever increasing amounts of formula in hopes that she can gain weight, but she just hasn’t taken in enough.

We still hope to take her home from the hospital early next week, but right now there is a good chance that she will go home with an NG tube. If that is the case, she will eat all she can during the day and the rest of her daily intake will be pumped in overnight. Hopefully that won’t have to happen, but it all depends on Ingrid. She is so cute and she has no idea how much she stresses out her parents!

Ingrid had an ultrasound of her heart today. The cardiologist said everything looks good, that her coarctation is "not there" (meaning that it is repaired) and that there is a diminishing amount of turbulence around her repair.

And in other news: Grandma came to visit and enjoyed holding Ingrid for a short time.