when you make a special trip to the store to buy Pedialyte.
Clara's first week at home has been pretty good. She sleeps well at night (5-6 hours at a time), which Jeremy and I are very thankful for. She's super cute and generally not too fussy. However, we've noticed the past few days that she is eating very slowly. It often takes her up to an hour and a half to finish 3-4 ounces. It's supposed to take her only a half hour. So I called Dr. Acton's (the surgeon) nurse today to talk to her about this. The concern is that the place where they repaired Clara's esophagus could be shrinking a bit and need to be dilated. So tomorrow I will be taking Clara back to the hospital for a test which will show whether they need to dilate the repair site. If they find that dilation is necessary they will go ahead and do that tomorrow while we are there. This would involve sedating her and putting a balloon down into her esophagus to stretch the repair site. It's a pretty minor procedure I guess, but she can't have milk for six hours before the test...thus the Pedialyte. She's allowed to drink that up until two hours before the test. I'll let you know what we find out.
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