Kalan's Adventure Continues

The third week Mum stayed back in hospital with Kalan.


Kalan was not at all keen for the formula being offered after five months of Mum's lovely breast milk so most of the week was spent with an ng tube on him. This meant that he could get the formula through to Kalan with out him tasting it every few hours. Kalan thought the tube was annoying and kept trying to take it out. Kept offering the bottle but not that keen. After a lot of hard work Kalan started taking 20mls from the bottle. The formula doesn't taste very good so he took a bit more when it was flavoured with vanilla and changed to a Nuk teat.

On Wednesday the grandparents came to visit and hear all about Kalan's trip to hospital!

By Thursday night Kalan gave in and took a whole bottle. Mum had mixed emotions about this was happy you took the bottle so we could take the ng tube out but sad about giving up breast feeding. Grandad and Grandma stayed for a couple of days to help out. Grandma was very excited to be abls to give you a botttle.

After Mum complainng about Kalan's head weeping more and more. The doctors decided to do a swap of your head again to see if anything new had grown.
After a few days the result came back and can you believe a new bug had emerged.

The bug of the week is called pseudonymous!
Dr Rosier told Mum this is normally treated with a iv drip and would mean maybe a longer stay in hospital but will try to treat it with oral antibiotics so we can go home.
On the Wednesday Dr Miller let us go home with oral antibiotics and creams for his eczema and go see him next Mon for a check up.