Jan 17 – Multi Update

Jan 13-15

• Max got to hold Olivia! She looked so cute in her ducky hat knitted by our family friend Jeanne
• She weighs 2lbs 9oz – up an entire pound since birth!
• She is still on an antibiotic treating the pneumonia
• The PDA has gotten smaller since the second round of indomethacin was completed
• She’s pretty swollen right now due to the decrease in breastmilk and increase in nutritional IV fluids while she was on the indomethacin
• She has a small umbilical hernia, around her belly button. The medical team will leave this alone; it may eventually go away but it could take 2-3 years. It’s not harming her.
• She has slightly elevated pulmonary hypertension

Jan 16-17

• 31 weeks adjusted gestationally today – 4 weeks old!
• Weight is 2lbs 10 oz
• Still has moderate heart murmur
• Finished 10-day meropenem course morning of 1/17
• Plan is to start steroids soon (likely Thursday), but want to reculture first to make sure there’s no infection
• Feeds are still rising, which is great!
• Olivia received a blood transfusion on 1/16, with diuretic to help with the extra swelling.