It's been awhile since my last post...it always takes us a bit of time to get back into the groove of things....and to gain our comfort level back after an infection.
Hunter has been vomiting since his infection. We were told this infection sort of pushed him over the edge and to be patient since it will likely take him longer to get back to himself...unfortunately we have not been giving him his oral feeds due to the vomiting so we feel he is losing out on keeping those skills. He does seem to be getting better though...personality wise he is back to himself...he only vomits maybe 1-3 times per day and we started giving him one feed per day to get him back into it. He doesn't seem to have forgotten too much...
The rubber pants were not helpful...we have moved on to adult incontinence pads in his diaper...the O'Connor's gave us this idea and it does seem to help. He still has some leaks but its much less than before...we have started wrapping his line at bedtime with gauze and plastic wrap...haven't had any poop touch his line since the infection so it will be interesting to see if this prevents the infections or if they are coming from his "leaky gut". We also started putting 70% ethanol into his line 3 times per week to kill any possible infections growing in the line. We have had some difficulty extracting it so its unknown if his line is moving inside his vein or if there is a clot somewhere in the line...its more likely that it's moving since the heparin comes out fine on all the other days and we can flush saline through it without issue...
Since our last post Hunter has started sitting on his own and during the Thanksgiving weekend his bottom two teeth came through!! He's getting to be such a big boy.....and he's so good...just a happy kid all the time....well...ok...most of the time!! haahah
I've posted some pics of Hunter....I think he's undecided on whether to walk or crawl first...maybe he'll just roll through his first year!!
