Kayla day 12 (30 weeks)

Hooray Kayla is 30 weeks today and doing well. Mike and I went in around 2pm today and talked to the Dr about Kayla's blood work. So far nothing has grown in the culture they started yesterday. They did start her on antibiotics just in case there might be something growing that they haven't caught yet. They want to stop anything before it starts because Kayla is still so little. They also noticed a bit of a bacterial infection in Kayla's pic line (very normal for preemies), this is the line that gives Kayla all of her IV fluids. So we are just praying that the new pic line they will have to put in will go in well and not cause any type of new infection as they sometimes can. They also took another blood draw from Kayla this morning to check out her levels and thankfully they are back down again. Because of this they are going to start increased Kayla on every other feeding they give her. I am so excited to get her on more and more of my milk and watch her start to grow. :)
I called later tonight to get an update on Kayla and the pic line that had to put in. Nurse said the pic line started well but they had to realign it a couple of times to get it in the right direction and right line. After they were done with that they had to take an x-ray to make sure it was running through the right line. Thankfully it was, then the nurse did Kayla's first increase in milk from 1cc to 2cc's. But right after she had done that the ultrasound tech came in to get some shots of Kayla's head/brain again. We won't know results of that until tomorrow but when the nurse had checked Kayla when they were done she said Kayla hadn't kept down the 2cc's of fluid. So she decided to try 2cc's again instead of just doing one for her next feeding. She said she thinks Kayla wasn't able to keep it down just because of all the activity she had gotten before and after she had given to her. So I hope that she has been able to keep down the second dose of 2cc's so she can start gaining some weight. They say once we can get Kayla past 3lbs she will start to put on the weight quickly, but it's just hard to get them to that point.