Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Edison Day

Yesterday the light bulb was turned on! Maisie has made a huge leap forward- she ate all of her feedings yesterday without her feeding tube!!!! Most of them were from the bottle; and just as I was despairing that she'd prefer the bottle and never figure out how to nurse, she downed a TON from mom at her 9:00pm feeding last night. We are SOOO excited!

Today the med team's plan is to let Maisie eat however much or little she wants for 24 hours to make sure she gets enough when she goes home. What did you say? Go home?! We are on our way!! They still won't give us a definite day for when we might be going home, but all this eating is definitely moving us out of the NICU fast! We will be sure to keep all posted.
Maisie is an eating machine!