Still Doing Great!

Kenadi is still doing really good! The doctors and nurses can not believe how quickly she is recovering. The nurse practioner today was telling me that she was here when Kenadi was put on ECMO and everyone was expecting her to be on it for at least 7 days but probably more like 2 weeks and she ended up only being on it for 4 days. She said that she just could not believe how well she is doing. Yesterday during rounds, Kenadi's doctor, Dr Yost, said that she just needs to learn how to eat and then she will be able to come home. He then followed that up by saying learning how to eat can be very difficult for babies, especially ones who had a diaphragmatic hernia. But we are working with an occupational therapist and she is doing a little better each day. This morning the occupational therapist fed her and Kenadi ate 22 ml!! The most she had eaten before that was 10 ml so that was awesome! Kenadi is now on full feeds (2 oz of 60 ml) so they are taking out her central line!! They were hoping to get it out today, but it looks like its going to be tomorrow (the surgery crew has to come up to take it out). Anyways, this is very exciting! After getting the central line out there are no more ivs in her! The only things she will have are her feeding tube, nasal cannulas for her oxygen and sensors for oxygen saturation, heart rate, and breathing rate. Also, they are working on lowering her oxygen from 1 liter/minute to .5 liter/minute. We will see how that goes but at the rate she goes, it will go great! Dr Yost even mentioned how way way way ahead of the curve she is (thats exactly how he said it). These pictures are from earlier today.