Our new best friends - Staph and Yeast

We've actually had a peaceful week so far despite the title of today's post. 

It's best to go back to the beginning of the week.

On Monday we were set to see Dr. Reilly but that was last minute postponed till Wednesday.  No biggie, we kept Payton on her antibiotics (which we noticed a big improvement with her MIC KEY discharge) and her granulation tissue seemed to have tappered in its growth.

Instead, we saw our new, local doctor on Tuesday.  It was a very positive appointment - where the doctor placed her hand over Payton's scar/MIC KEY and said, if it wasn't for this I'd think she's a perfectly healthy baby.  Payton got weighed and measured.

Wednesday we saw Dr. Reilly and while it was a good appointment we learned that our time with Dr. Reilly will/should be limited.  Once Payton's G-tube is removed and if her feeding keeps trending in the general direction that it currently is we won't need him anymore (since he specializes in children with feeding issues).  He did review her swabs from the NICU (2nd last day when they swabed her incision/stitches) and from our Emergency Room visit. Both tested positive for Staph infection.

The good news is she's handling the infection well but there are still 2 pus pockets with her incision where there are 2 dissolvable stitches that haven't managed to dissolve.

On another note, the antibiotics Payton's on has given her poor little bum a yeast infection. So we have cream for both the staph and the yeast infection.  Hopefully both are a thing of the past soon enough.

Payton was also weighed and measured and her stats are as follows:
Head Circumference: 50% (same as Livy was - that's where the resemblance ends).
Length: 25%
Weight: 25-30%

So she's doing very well all things considered.

Today Payton had her 1st set of immunization, something very crucial to a baby with small lungs.  Again she was weighed and measured and I figured it made sense to share her most recent measurements.

Here's where we stand:
Head Circumference: 39 cm
Length: 56 cm
Weight: 4.8 kg (10lbs 9 oz)

So in all, Payton has gained 1 lb, 12 oz since leaving the hospital...she's gaining almost as fast as Livy did when she came home from the hospital. 

Its also worth mentioning that we continue to work on strengthening Payton's muscles since she's missed so much tummy time etc while in the hospital.  She's now holding up her head though she only lasts a few minutes before she starts doing the bobble head.  Still, each day we can see a huge improvement.

Livy is still loving her little sister and only once now has she wanted to 'send her back to the hospital'.  I think that's pretty good so far.  I'm also being asked by Livy for more hugs and cuddles as the low level jealousy seeps in...I'm pretty ok with that since we don't get enough from the little bug.