So today was a bit of a long day for Mazie. I don't want to say a setback day, because it's really not. She's just very tired, and having a little trouble.

She's got the feeding tube in her nose. She keeps forgetting to breathe while she's eating. She's falling asleep when she goes to eat, and she'll start to eat, but very soon after her breathing will slow dramatically. We pat her on the back, wake her up a litle, and she starts breathing again with no problems... It scared the crap out of us when it happened, but she was fine, and the Nurses told us we did exactly what they did, so we'd done good.

According to Mazie's nurse this really isn't uncommon at all. She's just learning to coordinate all her actions, and when she's tired from the Bilirubin (the stuff that's causing her jaundice) it's just very, very hard for her to do. She's holding it down just fine, we're just having to give it to her through a tube instead of a nipple. When she is awake, and alert, she has no problem whatsoever with breathing, sucking, and swallowing.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better... one day at a time. Today wasn't as good as past days, but this is only one day in her life. There's plenty more where this one came from.