Day +55: two steps forward, one step back

Continuing on a slow, bumpy path to recovery. The big news is that Mina Brigitta went for a walk in the hallway today! First one in quite some time. I'm sure the new skin on the bottom of her feet is still quite tender, but she stood up on the scale by herself this morning, and then this afternoon Keri took her out into the hallway. She was very excited to see another baby with tubes, and was interested to note that they weren't connected to a pole. She had to make sure that Keri told me the whole story when she called me later that afternoon. The other great thing is that Mina Brigitta absolutely loves having Zeedie here. They spent a lot of time giggling together.

The not so great news is that Mina Brigitta threw up today, which she hasn't been doing lately, and there were some spots of blood in it. Also, her eyes now have a slight yellowish tinge because of the elevated bilirubin levels. We haven't talked to the doctors since this morning. Hopefully they'll say it just takes a long time for the gut to heal, and maybe the buttered noodles she ate were a little too much too soon. She's been eating a little bit every day, and later on tonight she ate some Cheerios with lactose-free milk. We need to get her eating and off the IV nutrition as quickly as possible, but her stomach also needs to be ready to handle it.