The Saturday morning post

Happy Saturday to everyone - so last night yet again - Mallie's temperature dropped down again as well as her heart rate. they had to use the obnoxious warming mattress thing again. This time the nurse did some refiguring on how to put it on her and it worked a bit better. It kept her temp up and her heart rate too - so that is good. Still trying to figure out why the hell its happening - I was researching late and chatting with the nurses and docs. The only thing on her blood work shows elevated platelets. all night I was thinking why in the world is this happening now. This morning she woke up happy, happy! Just like every other morning they came in to do vitals and weight check. I had not asked her actual weight in pounds in quite awhile - not thinking that she was really losing weight because of her being on the TPN. So he looked it up and and she weighed 9 pounds 8 ounces this morning!!!! NICE...she has lost a pound since being here - maybe even over a pound. OMG - no wonder she can't maintain body temperature......Dr. Robertson came in this morning and said we can start feeds - only a half an ounce at a time every three hours. The plan is that if she does ok with that - we can bump her to 1 ounce per feed every three hours. Slow and easy is what we are doing. The doctor agreed with me that her weight loss is causing her temp imbalance which inter affects her heart rate. So I don't know what the plan is as far as coming home. We sure can't come home with her temp and heart rate dropping that much. So will see - she needs more body fat.....first thing is first - her digestive system needs to work for that to happen. One thing at a time. Please god let it all go good and we can come home ASAP.