Well, Gwendolyn's continuing to progress in the right direction.
Monday marked approximately the halfway mark of her jaw extension. She continues to do a great job of breathing and keeping oxygen in her blood stream. She has maintained some congestion but I honestly think she's just got a little cold. Yesterday she coughed a couple of time and I noticed that she followed that up by spit up some phlegm. So, I maintain hopeful that her current congestion is in no way linked her breathing issues from before the extension was started and that the jaw surgery is working.
As for her feeding issues, the occupation therapist said on Monday that she feels confident Gwen will start with some small feedings out of a bottle in the very near future. It will be very interesting to see how those go. Obviously, we won't know for sure how she's doing on that topic until the jaw is finished being extended and she can have a swallow study to identify for sure that she's taking it in correctly. Still, I am eager to see how she does now that we are about two weeks removed from her last bottle feeding.
Other than that, both Braelyn and Gwen had a sad Monday afternoon because Nana and Poppa left for Atlanta. I was able to start the blog with a cute photo of Poppa visiting Gwen in the hospital. They actually headed south at a good time... we had our first snow fall overnight.
Well, that's all that's fit to print today. We'll see if Gwen gets a bottle feed in and keep you posted on her progress.
Monday marked approximately the halfway mark of her jaw extension. She continues to do a great job of breathing and keeping oxygen in her blood stream. She has maintained some congestion but I honestly think she's just got a little cold. Yesterday she coughed a couple of time and I noticed that she followed that up by spit up some phlegm. So, I maintain hopeful that her current congestion is in no way linked her breathing issues from before the extension was started and that the jaw surgery is working.
As for her feeding issues, the occupation therapist said on Monday that she feels confident Gwen will start with some small feedings out of a bottle in the very near future. It will be very interesting to see how those go. Obviously, we won't know for sure how she's doing on that topic until the jaw is finished being extended and she can have a swallow study to identify for sure that she's taking it in correctly. Still, I am eager to see how she does now that we are about two weeks removed from her last bottle feeding.
Other than that, both Braelyn and Gwen had a sad Monday afternoon because Nana and Poppa left for Atlanta. I was able to start the blog with a cute photo of Poppa visiting Gwen in the hospital. They actually headed south at a good time... we had our first snow fall overnight.
Well, that's all that's fit to print today. We'll see if Gwen gets a bottle feed in and keep you posted on her progress.
We sure do miss those little angels. We know they'll look different at Christmas and it will be the best experience ever to see them both at home. Love, Nana & Poppa
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