Test Two

This one was awful! I thought the first one was hard to sit through, but this one proved me wrong. I was told this one would be short, about 20 minutes. Fiona and I arrived two minutes before our 7:45a check-in but we weren’t called back until 8:26a! We wandered down many hallways until we came to a room with a 12 inch wooden board in the middle of a large machine. I took Fiona out of her stroller (still trying to figure out baby wearing) and she smiled and smiled at the tech. But, that soon changed…
Fiona had to be strapped to the board with her arms up by her ears while 8 pieces of Velcro wrapped around her little body. The cameras then came a mere inches over her head and I was only allowed to touch her little fingers and stroke her hair. She was then given the substance through her ng-tube as they rotated her from one side to the other. While it was interesting to see her insides on the screen, it broke my heart to hear her scream, and scream, and scream. Luckily this one only took the twenty minutes they said it would, but it took her another five minutes to calm down. After a lot of hugs, cuddles and kisses, we were on our way home.
Since then, Fiona has been taken off BeneProtein and she takes just a mixture of breast milk and formula. She has been having regular bowel movements and is a lot less fussy throughout the day. She was also throwing up almost her whole feeds the moment they were done at both 1am and 5 am. But, me being the super mom that I am, suggested to the dietician that we not only lower the rate of those feeds, but lower the volumes as well. She was taking her whole amount every 4 hours, even though she was sleeping with a lower metabolism. So, we increased her day feeds slightly and lowered her night feeds slightly and she has only spit-up slightly! Yippee!
Everyday she is growing and showing us just how incredibly blessed we are to have her in our lives