Jasmine was sleepy today, and didn’t need to have anything nasty done to her. We were just taking care with her nephrostomy line. It has been leaking a little bit again. Jasmine needs a specialist anethetist and surgeon, as she is a baby, so she can only be scheduled in a particular operating theatre. That is why she is waiting for confirmation of a time for her operation to remove the nephrostomy.Jasmine is receiving lots of gifts and got some natty romper suits today. They are the right size, so aren’t dwarfing her. She was looking very cute again.
We were honing our blood pressure skills again today, and paying more attention to how her blood pressure, weight, and fluid clearance are all interrelated.
Ruth: Tonight I was feeding Jasmine whilst she put on dialysis and having her blood pressure taken at the same time. She kept screaming everytime I pulled the bottle out of her mouth and tried to wind her. So, in the end I let her guzzle the lot and then shortly after I had changed her and got her settled for the night, she threw up the majority of her feed. I feel like a terrible mother and have spent the whole evening feeling guilty.
Ruth, never feel like a terrible mother. You are doing what most people couldn’t even imagine. FYI Eli and Sam would often throw up lots of milk after eating and they didn’t have anything wrong with them except that they nursed too fast. Oh, and don’t the Romans do that too?