X-rays, blood gases, and suction..oh my!

Hi all!  Well yesterday was another one of those backwards days.  Madison was again taken off of her milk, and  was not allowed anything by mouth!  Apparently during the night the nurses were able to suck out quite a bit of milk from Madison's tummy, so they got scared and stopped her milk.  Not only did they stop the milk they also thought that they should do some x-rays, which came back showing, what looked to them, like a dilated intestinal loop...whatever that means.  So Madison was left with just her TPN, which is the nutrients that she gets from her PICC line.  However, later in the evening when Tyler and I were there, Madison started spitting up quite a bit of "yellow stuff" (thats what Tyler and I call it), so the nurse paged the doctor, and he decide that they needed more x-rays..oh joy!  Those x-rays showed no dilated intestinal loops, but it did show a big gas bubble in her stomach.  The doctor then decided that they needed a blood gas, thankfully they were ok with just a capillary blood gas, so they just took blood from her heel.  The blood gas came back very good!  After that, the doctor decide that Madison needed her repogle  tube back (which is the tube that was suctioning her stomach), but this time the nurse is going to put it in Madison's mouth instead of her nose, and she planned to use a bigger tube.  This was the time that we left, there was no way I was going to watch the nurse shove a tube down Madison's nose or mouth!  Earlier that night the nurse had suctioned Madison's nose out, and I couldn't watch that either, the sound alone was horrible.  We were glad that they were going to put the tube back in to suction Madison's stomach out, because with her always being on her back, she could easily aspirate, or choke on the "yellow stuff".  Amongst all this action, on a positive note, Madison did have bowel movements, and she had great bowel sounds, so some of the contents of her stomach were making their way through, so she obviously has no obstructions, or problems in that way.  Tyler and I believe that the reason that Madison had such a hard time with the milk feeds is that the nurses increased her feeds too quickly, they went from 1.2 ml per hour to 3ml per hour in 2 days!  We believe that is too quick of an increase.  The doctors believe that feeds as a whole started too quickly, and that she never should have been fed milk at all yet.  However, as we have learned the opinions change as quickly as the staff, so by the next shift change we will have a new theory and a new plan of action.  Until then...