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Cori Lou is Scheduled for Heart Surgery to Patch Her Ventricular Septal Defect

December 1, 2013 by Laura Blodgett Leave a Comment

  Cori Lou is heading out to California in two days to prepare for heart surgery. A couple of weeks ago, she started having a lot more trouble breathing again and still hasn’t been gaining much weight, so she needs the VSD (the doctors found it soon after she was born, as you can read […]

Cori Lou Where Are You Finally at Home

November 3, 2013 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

Cori Lou is not so sure about her first ride in car.

  Cori Lou got to go home with her mommy and daddy on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30th. On that day, she had gotten up to 7 pounds 3 0unces, up 1.5 ounces from the day before. She is still taking about 4 medications, the main one being the diuretic to keep her fluid […]

Cori Lou Where Are You in the NICU Still Too Small

October 28, 2013 by Laura Blodgett 3 Comments

Cori Lou's tummy is healing very nicely.

Everything would be great if Cori Lou would just gain weight. For review, she was 6 pounds 6 ounces at birth. The recovery from abdominal surgery, the way it interfered with getting feeding and sucking established, and her heart abnormality have kept her from gaining consistently. She is, as of weigh-in this morning, 7 pounds […]

Cori Lou Where Are You in the NICU Needing to Grow

October 17, 2013 by Laura Blodgett 2 Comments

Cori Lou shows her belly 2 weeks after omphalocele surgery.

Cori Lou is progressing well with eating, but her weight has gone up and down enough that she is still just only 2 ounces higher than birth weight. This is a very important time for brain growth, so she needs to make some headway with this soon. Still, since the total amount she is ingesting […]

Cori Lou Where Are You in the NICU Breathing Easy

October 11, 2013 by Laura Blodgett 6 Comments

Aunt Natalie gets to meet Cori Lou for the first time

Cori Lou’s breathing has been dramatically better today and she was able to eat by mouth once that we know of. Eleven ounces of her mother’s milk, via a bottle, were consumed without distress. The time when Heidi was there, hoping to get to feed her, the silly goose wouldn’t wake up. Who ever heard […]

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