Egleston Day 18/19

First elevator ride with Mommy and Daddy

My scary radiology test, it's such a big machine!

Looking at Daddy!

Wide awake! (at almost 1 in the morning!)

We have had an eventful couple of days. We first lost our private room at the hospital because another baby came in that needed an isolation room, so we were moved to a semi-private room. We spent the night with 2 crying babies! Then fortunately, they moved us to a private room yesterday. We are so thankful that we were able to have a private room, it makes staying with Avery so much easier.

Avery is still doing well, but the surgeon and neonatologist were getting concerned because her output is still very green and there is still alot of it. They thought that there might be a blockage somewhere that may need more intervention. As you can imagine this was very scary for us because we want Avery to be progressing and not have any setbacks, let alone another surgery or intervention. So, we had to have a Upper GI study done. They put a very dense water soluble liquid in her stomach and traced it on xray to watch it go from the stomach through the small intestines. It took several hours, they came every 30 minutes to take an xray. Well, the results came back positive, she didn't have any blockage in the small intestines and the material went through without any problems. But, we still don't know why it is taking longer than expected for the output to clear up. Avery just wants to take her time, which is fine with us. She seems happy and only gets upset when she is spitting up green stuff.

Avery slept well last night and we still haven't had any problems with the oxygen desaturation, so hopefully we are in the clear with that. So, we will pray that the output decreases and gets clearer and hopefully this little miss can get some food!