Surgery

Over the past week we have been working hard to get Noelle eating more. She has been struggling  with getting too tired and not being able to feed more than twice in 24 hours via bottle. Unfortunately she is only taking 1/3 of those feedings by bottle. This means that she is getting less than 10% of her daily feeds via a bottle. Not an impressive amount, and for days she hasn't increased her intake from the bottle at all.

Since feeding is the only thing holding us back from bringing home our little one the doctors have been talking to us about placing a g-tube in her stomach, this will allow us to feed her all of her feedings that she is unable to take by bottle. We feel that this is the best option. If at some point she learns to feed by mouth we would be able to remove the g-tube and feed her exclusively by mouth.

Over the next few days we will have surgery and progress toward bringing Noelle home! S and H are so ready to have baby sister at home and to have mom and dad at home more too.