Monday, November 22, 2010

An occupational therapist for a 5 day old?

We've had some interesting visitors today for miss Addy. This morning the sono tech came through to take a bunch of measurements and pictures of the ventricles in her head. So far, they're a little enlarged, but not bad enough to schedule surgery to put in a shunt yet. They'll keep tabs on her progress and take daily measurements of the circumference of her head and have a followup sono scheduled for next week. Not much to do there but wait and see whether she'll need that surgery done before they discharge her or not.

She also had visits from a physical therapist and an occupational therapist who came by to do what they could to evaluate her strength and range of motion. They were a little limited in what they could do with the bandages on her back, sides, and legs and not wanting to move any of those much, but they gave us some exercises we could do to help keep her flexibility in her ankles and some infant massage stuff we could try.

Feeds are still going well so they're working on weaning her off of iv fluids and with any luck they'll start bottle feeding her soon.