I know it has been a few days since I have done an update. There has been a lot going on.

I went back to work this week. And while my body is feeling better from the surgery and the preeclampsia, it has still been exhausting. Our new routine for the week is wake up, work, eat dinner, go to the hospital, come home, and go to bed. Hopefully, we will get used to it, but it has been an adjustment to say the least.

The emotional toll has been heavy the last couple days. Here are the updates on Olivia:

• Olivia has two infections. One in her blood and a UTI. They were both found very early and as I said in my previous post, she has been on antibiotics and will continue for another week or so.
• Olivia had blood in two of her stools. They took her off her feedings and put her back on the IV nutrition and have been taking x-rays of her abdomen to see if they can see any issues. Everything has been clear, so they are still trying to figure out what the cause of the blood is. We are hoping she can get back on my milk soon.

While the above has been hard to deal with, there have been some positives:

• Olivia has been on Tylenol for 5 days to close her PDA. Today on her Echo it showed no evidence of the PDA. So, the Tylenol worked.
• On Thursday they needed to do a lumbar puncture to see if there was any infection in her spinal fluid. She did well during the procedure and there were no findings of infection there.
• She is still her spunky self and loves being read to and holding my finger. Below is a great photo Jeremy got.

Olivia’s Dates:

• Age: 20 days
• Gestation 28 weeks and 3 days

Until next time…