However, before he can come home he needs to be taking full milk feeds. Only once did they try a continuous feed of 2-4 cc's of milk. After finding he was mysteriously stooling blood he was taken off. Nothing has come up as a cause yet for the blood. Yesterday sometime the blood stopped. He hasn't had anything since.
They decided to put in a picc line for his fluids since that will be more long term. Baby GL has already had iv lines going into his hands and feet and now his head. To prevent having to constantly restart ivs a picc line would be better.
A picc line was attempted yesterday but the nurses were unsuccessful so this morning Baby GL went down to radiology, if I remember that correctly. That team was more successful placing a picc line in his leg than goes into the groin. I guess that's normal. I walked in this morning to see Baby GL with the resident doctor and nurse holding his leg because he was bleeding out quite a bit from the site of the picc line. The bleeding stopped, but he was given morphine to keep his still. He moves around so much causing some bleeding from the picc line site. Because of that loss of blood he may need another transfusion. His blood count was low but a decision was make to wait until tomorrow to see if Baby GL can recover some on his own.
The great news is that because there is no mysterious bleeding any longer he was able to get his milk back. He went back onto the 2 ccs of continuous feeding every hour. Hopefully he will be a happier baby having some food in his tummy and we can get his bowel moving.
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