ICU baby...

Haven't given a Sylvie update for a while. She's doing really well now and since our last post has continued to come along in leaps and bounds. Joe has been in a couple of times to give him his seal of approval although we're not sure if it was just the beeping machines that got him excited! He has given her a few gentle pats and is quite curious about having a good look at her. Pauline gave him a lovely teddy bear on his first visit and Sylvie had a little toy for him too although he's taken more of a shine to the rabbit in her cot that the next door neighbours gave her!
Her tummy tubes have been removed and she began to take milk at 1ml per hour on Saturday. She is already up to three-hourly feeds at the maximum dose and nurses have been trying her with bottle feeds as well as breast feeds when I make it in to the unit. She is still having antibiotics into her foot as she has a pressure sore on the back of her head from when she was sedated so they're being cautious about that. Her antibiotics will be given until the 12th and then they will monitor her without them for 24 hours before they decide if she needs another course. She is bruised like a little pin cushion from all the needles but is coping with it all very well. Her colour is also back to normal so she's a lovely pink colour. The nurses have also given her a dummy so that she can practice her sucking as well as comfort herself between feeds.
She is in a normal hospital cot now, not the huge all singing and dancing bed that she had before and is the oldest fixture in the ICU. She's had some new room mates over the week, mostly little preemies, so she gets lots of cuddles from the nurses because she's not as delicate as the others.