"Never A Dull Moment" Post Update

A lot has happened since I made the "Never A Dull Moment" post. I'll start with the weekend after I wrote that post:

Zoe vomited all weekend long, pretty much every time we fed her. I know it's normal for babies to spit up, but this was emptying her stomach, I had to change her clothes as well as mine and clean up the chair every time it happened, spit up. That's not normal. But it did look like spit up which was a good thing (not green, bloody, etc.). Even though she was emptying her stomach she still didn't eat very much (you'd think she would have been more hungry than usual).

So, her doctor called me on Monday morning to see how the weekend went with the low birth weight formula. I told him about Zoe's vomiting and not eating very much. He had us go in to his office that day so he could take a look at her.

During that visit he suggested to me that we get some tests done (including the ultrasound) to see if we could tell if there is a neurological connection as to why Zoe doesn't eat much or maybe a genetic condition of some sort. All the extra testing would be done via blood samples. But also if the ultrasound came back abnormal in any way then we would need to get more testing done. He explained to me that we could do this all as an outpatient but it might take a couple weeks to get it done because we would have to schedule everything. However, if we admitted Zoe to the hospital we could get it all done right away and we could also get her on some fluids because of the vomiting and not eating. I agreed that admitting Zoe to the hospital was better so off we went.

Lisa and Megan drove up to spend the night in the hospital with me and Zoe. Thank goodness. I did NOT like seeing Zoe with the fluid IVs in her. While we were there we decided to do a CT scan instead of an ultrasound because it's a more in depth scan. I was able to be in the room while they did the procedure. Zoe slept through it but I was SO scared. I couldn't believe my 2 month old daughter was getting a CT scan!

The results from the CT scan were normal. Whew. And so far all the blood tests have come back normal. Whew. So as far as we can tell there is no neurological connection with Zoe's lack of appetite. There also is no excess fluid around her brain (causing her head and soft spots to be so large). We're still waiting to hear back from some of the Chromosome tests to see if there if a genetic condition that would cause her to not want to eat...or maybe why she's still so tiny (duh, it's because she doesn't eat).

So basically Zoe just doesn't eat very much and is tiny. But she's developing normally in all other areas. She smiles, lifts her head, she looks around and can see and follow objects.

We stayed in the hospital Monday night and Zoe was released Tuesday. On Friday I took her back to the doctor and she weighed 8lbs 4oz. She gained weight!

Zoe also got her 2 month immunization shots on Friday. She cried and cried and cried. It was so sad. The shots made her sick for a couple days but she's feeling much better now.

One more thing. Mike and I think that she was vomiting all last weekend because we fed her too much formula and not enough breast milk. The formula was a lot heavier than the breast milk and since she was used to eating mostly breast milk it was just too hard on her stomach. Now we feed her only 1 or 2 formula bottles a day. She has vomited a couple times since last weekend but not too often. I'm not scared to hold her anymore. :)