An early post today, as Mummy and Daddy are off to Stratford Upon Avon this evening to meet up with some of Mummy's university friends, so we won't be back online until tomorrow evening.
The main function of babies is to grow and put on weight. Briony isn't. She lost another 40g yesterday, which means she has lost just over 5% of her bodyweight in the last 2 days. She now weighs 920g, just 10g above her birth weight of 910g three and a half weeks ago. Mummy is going to ask to speak to the doctors about it today as Briony seems to be fighting a loosing battle and Mummy and Daddy are quite concerned about it as Briony will not be let home until she is at least 2.5kg which seems a very long way off at the moment. At this rate it will be 2011 before she is home and Mummy's maternity leave will be almost over, which isn't great as she won't have had hardly any time at home with Briony. Once more, robbed of the experiences of a normal pregnancy/early months with a baby.
Briony's infection tests have come back all clear, which is good news. However, the less positive news is that her haemoglobin level came back at 6 (it should be around 10-11), so Briony had to have an blood transfusion overnight. This meant she had to have 2 IV lines inserted (one for the transfusion and one for some fluids whilst she was having the transfusion) which isn't great as they can be an infection risk. The doctors want to leave them in for 24-48 hours in case they need to give her anything else.
Her breathing remains as yesterday.
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